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PIONEER PERIOD AND 
PIONEER PEOPLE 



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FAIRFIELD COUNTY, 
OHIO. 



By 

C. M. U WISEMAN, 

Author of '* Centennial Lancaster/ 



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PREFACE 

TN this modest volume the writer has endeavored 
to sketch a picture of the pioneer period of 
Fairfield County and to sketch pioneer fam- 
ilies ; whose descendants have been prominent in their 
townships for one hundred years. It is hardly neces- 
sary to state that to the author it has been a very 
pleasing task. It was a period that tried men's souls 
and those who endured it all, and came through with 
honor, are worthy of all the good things that can be 
written of them. 

It has cost the author much time, labor and care- 
ful investigation ; and with all this, his work is 
by no means perfect. If errors are discovered, as they 
doubtless will be, the reader must remember, that it 
is impossible at this day to produce a perfect record 
of any family. What we offer to the indulgent reader, 
is very valuable and worthy of preservation. 

The author was encouraged and assisted by many 
good citizens in his labor of love, and to one and all, 
he makes this acknowledgement. The county records, 
the county histories of Scott, Graham, Caldwell and 
Hill, were often consulted. 

C. M. L. Wiseman. 
(5) 



INTRODUCTION 

CHE territory now included in Fairfield County was 
the home of the Wyandot Indians when a wil- 
derness. Several white men visited the region 
prior to 1798, the date of the first settlement, of whose 
visits we find brief accounts. 

In the year 1751, the Ohio Company of Virginia 
sent out Christopher Gist, George Croghan, and An- 
drew Morton to examine western lands as far west 
as the Miami towns of the Indians. They followed 
the old Indian trail leading from Fort Duquesne to 
the Shawanese town of old Chillicothe on the west 
bank of the Scioto, four miles below the present town 
of Circleville and where Westfall once was a thriving 
village. January 17, 1751 they camped at the "great 
swamp" or "Buffalo lick." The great swamp after- 
wards became the bed of the reservoir, now Buckeye 
Lake, in Fairfield County, Thomas Hutchins, en- 
gineer of the expedition of Col. Bouquet against the 
Indians in 1764 made a map of this old trail. At the 
crossing of the Hockhocking he shows a town and 
calls it Beavertown. A map made "by Pownall in 1773, 
shows the same town and he calls it Hockhocking or 
French Margarete south of the Big Swamp. 

Gen. Sanderson who knew the Indians states that 
the name of the town was Tarhe and that in 1790 it 
contained 500 souls. Taylor, in his history of Ohio, 
says there is. but little doubt, that Beavertown of Hut- 
chins was Tarhe. 

(7) 



8 Introduction. 

Col. James Smith, a Kentucky pioneer, was a pris- 
oner among the Indians in 1755, and with them camped 
at Buffalo lick, the great swamp of Gist. Here they 
hunted for several days killing deer and five Buffaloes. 

The Indians with their copper kettles made a half 
bushel of salt. This salt lick was undoubtedly de- 
stroyed by the reservoir. 

Without doubt Gist and his companions were the 
first white men to visit Fairfield County and the spot 
where Lancaster now stands as an explorer. 

Hutchins was a fine engineer and a reliable man. 
He surveyed the first seven ranges of Ohio for the 
general government and was the author of the plan 
of surveying by sections from meridian lines. 

Gist in his report states that he met many Scotch- 
Irish Indian traders among the Indians and Tarhe or 
the "Standing Stone," according to Leith and Rev. 
David Jones was a favorite trading post and a stop- 
ping place for those who passed over the long trail 
from Fort Duquesne to the towns of the Miami. Jones 
came up from the falls of the Ohio and found the 
trail by the Standing Stone the great thoroughfare. 



THE HISTORIC ZANE FAMILY. 

CHE first men to make a substantial or public im- 
provement in what is now Fairfield County were 
Ebenezer Zane, his brother Jonathan and son- 
in-law John Mclntire. Zane was employed by the 
United States government in 1796 to open a road from 
Wheeling, W. Va., to Maysville, Ky. The work was 
completed the following year. 

Ebenezer with his Indian guide "Tomepomehala" 
and perhaps others, inspected the route and blazed the 
way. tie then left the execution of the work to Jona- 
than Zane and John Mclntire. 

For this work he received in part compensation, 
a section of land near the "Standing Stone," on the 
Hockhocking river. 

In the year 1800 his sons, Noah and John, laid out 
the town of Lancaster and on Nov. 10, of that year 
made a public sale of the lots. The sons held a power 
of attorney to make the sales and the deeds therefor. 
John Zane was then 20 years of age and Noah 26 
years. It was some years before the lots were all dis- 
posed of. In the year 1814, Emanuel Carpenter Jr., pur- 
chased of Zane's heirs, that part of his section south 
of the town, beginning at the alley between Chestnut 
and the present Walnut street, for $6,782. 

The founder of a city, deserves more than a pass- 
ing notice. Ebenezer Zane and his two brothers Silas 
and Jonathan, were the first settlers of the Ohio val- 
ley, below Pittsburg. 

(9) 



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He was a frontiersman of rare ability, an able, 
energetic and influential man ; and during his life one 
of the foremost men of the frontier or of the Ohio 
valley. 

The Zane family were originally from Denmark, 
but the American ancestor came to America from 
England with William Penn. He was a Quaker and 
for some years prominent in the new settlement. Zane 
Street, Philadelphia, was named for him. Becoming 
obnoxious to his Quaker brethren, he cut loose from 
them and emigrated to Virginia, settling on the south 
branch of the Potomac, near what is now Moorefield, 
Hardy Co., W. Va., then known as Berkeley County, 
Virginia. There his descendants, the five men, who 
are the subjects of this sketch were born. Ebenezer, . 
Silas, Jonothan, Andrew and Isaac, and one known sis- 
ter, Elizabeth. 

Ebenezer was born October 7, 1747, and grew to 
manhood in the Potomac valley. There he was united 
in marriage to Elizabeth McCoUoch, a sister of four 
famous brothers, frontiersmen' and Indian fighters, 
Abraham, George, Samuel and John McColloch. Of 
these, Samuel was a distinguished man in the public 
service and a soldier of marked ability. In 1767 Eb- 
enezer Zane, Silas Zane and Jonathan made prepara- 
tion to seek a new home in the Western country ; and 
in the spring of the following year, Ebenezer, with his 
brothers, his family, his negro slaves and other chat- 
tels, bid adieu to one of the most beautiful of Virginia 
valleys and took up their line of march for the West. 
They followed an old trail from Cumberland to Red- 
Stone, now Brownsville, Pa., where they tarried, and 
spent the winter. 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 11 

In the spring of 1769 the three brothers built cab- 
ins at the mouth of WheeHng creek on the Ohio and 
staked off claims. To this place, before the close of 
navigation, Zane brought his family, negroes, cattle 
and horses, by rude boat, of pioneer construction. This 
was the founding of the city of Wheeling. 

Ebenezer Zane was fortunate in his wife. No pio- 
neer was ever blessed with a better helpmate. She was 
a brilliant, capable woman, equal to any emergency, and 
a leader in the trying times in which she lived. She 
was born October 30, 1748, and was about one year her 
husband's junior. She was a very capable nurse and 
could dress a gunshot wound with skill, using the 
knife when necessary. 

The Zanes were wise woodmen, they understood 
the Indians and knew how to manage them. If their 
advice had been heeded on more than one or two occa- 
sions, many valuable lives would have been saved. 
Col. Zane was the recognized leader in his new settle- 
ment during his life. He commanded at Fort Henry 
in the siege of 1777, and when the Indians again vis- 
ited the Fort in 1782, he placed his brother Col. Silas 
Zane in command of the Fort, while he, with others, 
took their places in his own block house, sixty yards- 
from the Fort, where their ammunition was stored. 

Col. Zane and his brothers owned all of the good 
land for two miles on both sides of the Ohio at Wheel- 
ing. In 1806 he laid out the town of Bridgeport, and 
in 1835 his grandson Ebenezer Martin laid out the 
city of Martin's Ferry above Bridgeport. 

Col. Ebenezer Zane died in the year 181 1, aged 64 
years, and his body was buried in the cemetery at 
Bridgeport. A plain stone slab marks his resting 
place. Col. Zane was a disbursing officer in the army 



12 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

of Lord Dunmore and attained the rank of Colonel. 
His daughter Catherine was born June 27, 1769 and 
married Captain Absalom Martin of the U. S. Army. 
Ann was born May 2^, 1771, Sarah was born February 
23, 1773, and married John Mclntire, a shoemaker. 
Noah was born October i, 1774, Rebecca was born Oc- 
tober 10, 1776. She married John Clarke. Harriett or 
Esther was born October 8, 1786, and married Elijah 
Woods. Daniel was born October 25, 1788, Jesse, 
October 5, 1790, John was born April 30, 1780, Samuel 
was born May 12, 1782. 

Jesse and John died while yet young men, Noah 
lived in Wheeling as late as 1835, Daniel lived and died 
'on Wheeling Island. His son Daniel lives there now, 
near the suspension bridge. 

Samuel Zane married Elizabeth Bloomfield and 
lived and reared a large family west of Bridgeport, 
three sons and eight daughters. His daughter Cynthia 
E., was the first wife of Dr. J. L. Rankin of Bremen, 
Ohio. Their son resides in New Mexico. Martha mar- 
ried Frank Burton of Brownville, Licking County, and 
now lives a widow in Columbus. Virginia married Sam- 
uel R. Klotts of Lancaster, now of Columbus. Emma 
married George Brown of Somerset, Ohio. 

Alice Josephine married Dr. Lewis Gray and they 
now reside in Columbus, O. 

Catharine married Ezekiel Mills of Barnesville, 
Ohio, moved to Iowa and both died there. 

Sarah married Ferdinand Moeller of Zanesville, 
Ohio, and moved to Newport, Ky. 

Narcissa married Samuel Robinson of Zanesville, 
and moved to Burlington, Iowa. 

Benjamin Franklin, son of Samuel, was a bach- 
elor and died in Columbus, Ohio. 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. la 

Ebenezer, son of Samuel, married Ellen Barnett 
of Camden, Preble County, Ohio. Their son, Lewis 
Pearl, is a clerk in the wholesale o^rocery of Samuel 
Butler, Columbus, Ohio. 

Austin Bloomfield Zane, son of Samuel, married 
Mary Barnett of Camden, Ohio. They live in Colum- 
bus, Ohio. Their son, Lewis B., is in the cigar bus- 
iness with his father in Columbus, Oh.io. 

Austin B. was a soldier of the Union army from 
Licking- County, Ohio. 

Rebecca Crawford, a daugliter of John and Esther 
Woods, was born on a farm near Martin's Ferry and 
now lives, 82 years of age, in Bridgeport, Ohio. John 
Clark and wife, Rebecca, lived on a farm on Wheel- 
ing creek, three miles west of Wheeling, Belmont 
County, Ohio. Rebecca, a maiden daughter, lives 
there now. 

Of Colonel Silas Zane we know but little, in addi- 
tion to vv'hat has been written. He was a bold, able 
and gallant co-laborer with his pioneer brothers. Of 
Andrew Zane we know still less. He was killed while 
crossing the Scioto, presumably by the Indians. 

Elizabeth Zane, sister of the five brothers, was 
born in Berkeley County, Va., in 1759. She was edu- 
cated in Philadelphia, and prior to the siege of Ft. 
Henry in 1782, M'here she immortalized herself; came 
to Wheeling on a visit. She was a beautiful girl and 
throughout a long life she was an accomplished and 
handsome woman, and withal modest and unassum- 
ing. In 1782, when Ft. Henry was invested by hun- 
dreds of savages, the supply of pOwder became ex- 
hausted and it was necessary for some intrepid indi- 
vidual to make the attempt to secure a supply from 
Zane's block-house, sixty yards distant. This young 



14 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

school girl volunteered to undertake the perilous duty. 
Her uncle objected but she insisted. Braving the fire 
of hundreds of rifles she made her way to the block- 
house. There Colonel Ebenezer Zane tied a table 
cloth about her waist and emptied into it a keg of 
powder. With this burden she bravely faced what 
seemed certain death and reached the Fort unharmed. 
Her valor saved the brave garrison and made her name 
famous so long as brave, unselfish deeds are recorded 
and read. 

She married a Mr. McLaughlin, and he dying she 
married a Mr. Clark. A son of the latter was living 
as late as 1877. 

She is said to have died in St. Clairsville in 1847. 

JONATHAN ZANE 

Jonathan Zane was identified with his brother, 
Ebenezer, throughout his life and was one of his 
most useful and trusted assistants. 

He was a famous hunter and marksman and was 
employed as a hunter by Lord Dunmore for his 
army. He superintended the construction of Zane's 
trace. He was guide and scout to the army of Gen, 
William Crawford in his expedition against the In- 
dians at Sandusky. He was invited to a council of 
war before the fatal battle and advised a retreat. He 
knew the Indians better than Crawford and he gave 
good reason for his advice. He married and reared 
a large family in Wheeling, where he outlived his 
more famous brother many years. 

ISAAC ZANE 

Isaac Zane, the youngest of the Zane brothers, 
when but nine years of age, was captured by the 
Wyandott Indians and carried to their home on the 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 15 

Sandusky. The capture is said to have been made at 
or near his father's home, but under what circum- 
stances we cannot state. He was a captive for seven- 
teen years and endured all of the hardships of savage 
life. While a captive he often met white traders and 
scouts and was frequently useful to his own race, 
by giving advice or timely warning. We know that 
he was released prior to the year 1785, for in that year 
he was guide and hunter to General Richard Butler, 
one of the commissioners to treat with the Indians of 
the Northwest territory. For this service he was 
handsomely rewarded by the U. S. government, 
receiving several sections of good land on Mad river, 
near the present town of Zanesfield, Logan County, 
Ohio. What he did until the year he settled upon 
these lands we do not know. During this period a 
daughter married William McColloch, a nephew of 
the wife of Ebenezer Zane. They moved to the 
present site of Zanesville, where on May 7, 1798, 
Noah Zane McColloch was born, the first child born 
in Zanesville. From Zanesville they moved, presum- 
ably with Isaac Zane, to Mad river. McColloch was 
a soldier of the war of 181 2 and was killed at Browns- 
town. 

His son, Noah Zane, lived a long and useful life 
in Logan County, O. He was a man of fine mind, of 
superior intelligence, and a splendid conversationalist. 
He was a leading citizen of Logan County and a friend 
and associate of the prominent men of Bellefontaine. 
Frank McCulloch, late member of the Ohio Board of 
Public Works, is his son and therefore a great grand- 
son of Isaac Zane and his Indian wife. Samuel 
McColloch, Secretary to the Board of Public Works, 
is also a son of Noah Zane McColloch. 



16 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

General Isaac Gardner of Bellefontaine married a 
grand-daughter of Isaac Zane and his daughter mar- 
ried General Robert P. Kennedy. 

Mrs. Catharine Dawson of Yellow Springs is a 
great grand-daughter of Isaac Zane. 

Sarah Mclntire married for a second husband 
Rev. David Young, a famous pioneer Methodist 
preacher. 

The following well written sketch of the Zanes 
was found in an old newspaper. The author is un- 
known, but it is worthy of preservation — as is any- 
thing illustrating the lives of such historic characters 
as the Zane brothers. 

EARLY HISTORY 

The Zane family was a remarkable one of early 
days, and some of its micmbers are historical char- 
acters. 

There were four brothers, Isaac, Ebenezer, Silas 
and Jonathan Zane, who were captured by the Indians 
when they were boys and held in captivity for thir- 
teen years. 

During the greater part of the period of their 
enforced detention the Zanes lived in what is now 
Eastern Ohio. Isaac, Ebenezer and Jonathan were 
taken to Detroit by their captors and there exchanged 
or in some way set at liberty. But the bonds that held 
Isaac, the remaining brother, were of a stouter sort 
than those of revenge or interest such as had caused 
the long captivity of his companions. Isaac Zane 
was loved by the comely daughter of the Wyandot 
chieftaifi who was the leader of the tribe that held the 
Zanes in custody. Isaac was a young man and he 
wanted to be free. Twice he escaped and twice he 
was brought back and treated with engaging tender- 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 17 

ness by the Indian maiden. But he thought more of 
Hberty than of woman's love, and so made a third 
attempt to escape from the foes that held him in such 
high esteem that they could not bear to part with him. 
For several days he traveled toward the rising sun, 
and finally reached Butler County, Pennsylvania, and 
was turning his course toward Pittsburg when he was 
met by some hostile Indians. 

THE JAWS OF DEATH 

He could run like a deer, but his pursuers were 
numerous and some of them who knew the country 
much better than he did managed to cut off his retreat, 
and he was made a prisoner. This time he fell into 
the hands of Indians who were not at all disposed to 
treat him kindly. He was securely bound and taken 
to the camp of Cornplanter, a famous chieftain. The 
tribe which he led was originally ruled by an Indian 
Queen of singular power and beauty. This woman, 
said the only living descendant of Zane to me recently, 
was a superior person. She was born to rule and 
govern her people by the force of her character. 
She was importuned by many a great chief, time after 
time, to become his wife, but she preferred to cling 
to her power and dignity. She was the mother of 
Cornplanter, the reputed son of a famous white man. 

When Isaac Zane was brought before Cornplanter 
he was accused of being an Indian-slayer, and was 
doomed to be burned at the stake. 

His face was painted black, which indicated that 
a horrible death was in store for him and he was told 
that the next morning would be his last. The fright- 
ful death-whoop sounded through the camp at night 

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18 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

and malignant squaws leered at the youthful prisoner 
and told him of the pain that they were preparing to 
inflict upon him. He was unable to sleep until nearly 
daylight, when he fell into an uneasy slumber. Before 
he awoke he saw in a grateful morning vision that 
floated before his drowsy eyes, the slender figure of 
the Wyandot maiden who loved him and from whose 
affectionate demonstrations he had fled. She smiled 
upon him and seemed to say "have hope." The next 
moment he was roughly aroused by his captors and 
led out to die. 

A stake had been set in the ground, and he was 
fastened to it by a leather thong attached to his 
hands. Piles of fagots were stacked up a few feet 
from him, and all about him the warriors and women 
were circling, with shrill outcries. A number of 
squaws pulled out all of his finger and toe nails, and 
sharp lighted sticks were pushed into his bare arms 
and breast. 

Finally a big warrior approached with a firebrand 
to light the fagots, and half a dozen guns charged with 
salt and coarse powder were leveled at the victmi's 
body. The death dance was commenced and the fire 
had just been applied to the dry sticks when the war- 
whoop of the Wyandots rang out in the clear morning 
air, and a band of braves led by the chief's own 
daughter, dashed into the camp. The maiden saw 
the awful peril of the man she loved, and she rode 
her pony straight to him and set him free with a 
single stroke of her knife. The Wyandots claimed 
that Zane was one of their own people, and that they 
had adopted him thirteen years ago. 

The solid merits of the claim, coupled with the 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 19 

beauty of the maiden who led the rescuinj^ party, in- 
duced Cornplanter to set Zane at Liberty. 

He returned to his place of captivity in Ohio with 
the Wyandots, and was manly enough to marry the 
maiden, whose superb, savage love for him had led 
her to pursue him through the forests of Pennsyl- 
vania, where she snatched him from a fearful death. 

The Zanes were all children of the forest and their 
long residence with the red men unfitted them for the 
restful vocations of peace. They were all splendid 
Indian fighters, and found ample employment in that 
line till they became middle aged men. 

After Isaac Zane married the Indian girl he lived 
for a time with her tribe and then became a scout in 
the Indian wars. His services to the government 
were so valuable that he was given a large tract of 
land in Logan County. After peace had been restored 
and the days of fighting had passed away, Isaac Zane 
moved to his land in Logan County, and there spent 
the rest of his days. He is buried near Zanesfield, 
and has descendants still living in Logan and Cham- 
])aign Counties. Zane and his Indian wife had four 
or five daughters and three sons. The daugh- 
ters were women of fine figure and engaging features, 
with skin of verv light color. The sons, on the other 
hand, of dark comi)lexion, and looked much like In- 
dians. r)ne of the sons, wlio was named after his 
father, married and was an excellent citizen. The 
other, Samuel Zane, had the roving disposition of his 
savage ancestors. The IMcCullochs. Gardiners and 
some of the Longs of Western Ohio, are descended 
from Isaac Zane and his Indian Princess. 

The writer of the foregoing sketch omits the name 



20 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

of Andrew. He errs in stating that all were prisoners, 
Isaac was the only captive. 

EBENEZER ZANE 

The original proprietor of Zanesville, Ebenezer 
Zane, was a man who bore a very conspicuous part 
in the early history of the Ohio Valley. I find letters 
addressed to him in the St. Clair correspondence, and 
there is no doubt that he was the most efficient help 
that the government found whenever it undertook to 
whip the Indians. 

Ebenezer Zane was practically the founder of 
Wheeling, Martin's Ferry, Bridgeport and Zanesville. 
He was given a large tract of land along the Ohio 
river, extending northward from Wheeling creek for 
quite a distance, and one of his brothers took for his 
reward from the government Wheeling Island, and a 
third brother owned land on the opposite side of the 
river. 

Mclntire met Sarah Zane when she was fourteen 
years of age, and he married her before she was six- 
teen, in spite of the stern opposition of her father. 
Colonel Zane yielded with grace when he saw that his 
consent was no longer needed, and Mclntire seems to 
have become a favorite with him. 

In 1796 Ebenezer Zane was authorized by Congress 
to construct a road from Wheeling, W. Va., to Mays- 
ville, Ky., then called Limestone. His younger bro- 
ther Jonathan and his son-in-law Mclntire did most 
of the work. All that was done was to mark out and 
clear a road that horsemen could travel. It was 
afterwards improved. For this work Zane was al- 
lowed, as compensation, to locate military warrants 
upon three sections of land not to exceed one mile 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 21 

square each. He took one section where his road 
crossed the Muskingum at Zanesville, a second where 
it crossed the Hocking at Lancaster, and the third 
at the crossing of the Scioto, opposite Chillicothe. 
The land about Zanesville he gave to his brother and 
to John Mclntire. 

In this manner the site of Zanesville came into the 
possession of John Mclntire. He put his movable 
property on a flatboat at Wheeling, and came with 
his family to begin the settlement of the new town 
in 1799. He was soon joined by a few families from 
Virginia, and soon a little town sprang up. The first 
hotel was kept by Mclntire. 

Mclntire did not become an innkeeper because he 
wanted to earn a livelihood in that way, but rather to 
furnish an attractive place of entertainment for trav- 
elers. His house was a double log cabin, with a wide 
passageway between the two ends. He was a cordial, 
good-humored man, with the fine southern notion of 
hospitality, and his house was a very popular resting 
place for travelers. Mclntire's house stood at what is 
now the corner of Market and Second streets, a few 
rods from the river, in a grove of maple trees. 

When Louis Philippe was roaming about America 
in a melancholy frame of mind while the dazzling 
star of Napoleon was rising to its magnificent zenith, 
the dejected monarch stayed for a time at Mcln- 
tire's cabin. Lewis Cass, referring to the incident 
in his book, says : ' At Zanesville the party found 
the comfortable cabin of Mr. Mclntire, whose 
name had been preserved in the King's memory, 
and whose house was a favorite place of rest 
and refreshment for all travelers who at this early 
period were compelled to traverse that part of the 



22 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

country. And if these pages should chance to 
meet the eyes of any of those, who, like the writer, 
have passed many a pleasant hour under the roof of 
this uneducated but truly worthy and respectable man, 
he trusts they will unite in this tribute to his memory." 



MR, AND MRS. McINTIRE. 



Written by Mks. Helene Louisa Sullivan, niece of Col. Zane, 
March 17, 1892, Zanesville Ohio. 

TAM o£)t acquainted with the date of Mr. Mcln- 
tire's coming- to Wheeling-, Virginia; but it must 
have been somewhere near the close of the last 
century, as he lived there some years prior to locat- 
ing the government section of land and laying out the 
present city of Zanesville in 1799. 

"He was born at Alexandria, Virginia, in 1759, of 
Scotch parentage. Nothing further is known of his 
family to my knowledge, no relative ever having visited 
him, or come to claim his wealth. At Wheeling, he 
followed the humble occupation of intinerant shoe- 
maker, going from house to house as his services were 
required — according to the custom of the times in 
frontier settlements. The wealthy proprietor of 
Wheeling, Col. Ebenezer Zane, having a large family 
and a plantation of slaves, employed much of John 
Mclntire's time as shoemaker, and he made good use 
of his opportunities as resident Crispin by gaining 
the affections of Col. Zane's second daughter, a girl of 
fifteen. Reing a handsome man, of fine natural abil- 
ties and address, this was probably a natural conse- 
quence. In so sparsely inhabited a village as Wheeling 
was at the time, he could have had but few, if any 
rivals, and the romance natural to the youth of the 
young lady was all in his favor. 
(23) 



24 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

MR. McINTIRE'S MARRIAGE 

"The first act in the drama of Hfe that brought the 
young- adventurer into notice was his marriage. The 
girl of fifteen summers, showing the pkick that dis- 
tinguished her in after Hfe, could not be induced to 
give up her handsome lover, notwithstanding the vio- 
lent opposition of the hitherto unsuspecting parents, 
especially Mrs. Col. Zane. She could not brook such 
mesalliance for her daughter. But John Mclntire, be- 
ing many years her senior, had unbounded influence 
over Miss Sarah, and marry they would. 

"Col. Zane, of Quaker proclivities and of peaceful 
disposition, when he found neither persuasion nor 
threats availed anything, gave orders that the marriage 
should take place in the house. Then, taking his gun, 
hid his chagrin in the depths of the forest — not return- 
ing for three days — while the mother nursed her wrath 
in a distant part of the house. Mrs. Mclntire in after 
years often told the story of her marriage, to the writer 
of this sketch, never for a moment seeming to realize 
that she was the transgressor. 

"No sooner was the bridegroom out of the way, 
than the outraged mother gave vent to her feelings 
by taking ofif her slipper and applying it vigorously 
over the shoulders of the child bride, in reproof of her 
disobedience. During the recital Mrs. Mclntire, by 
her manner, plainly showed she still felt the indignity 
of such treatment and never quite forgave her mother. 
She always closed by saying with evident pride, 'Mr. 
Mac. became the favorite son-in-law and mother took 
more pleasure in visiting my house, than any of her 
other daughters.' 

"Such being the state of afifairs, the young couple 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 25 

could not remain under the paternal roof. They made 
themselves a home on the banks of the Ohio river, in 
a little cabin, where they remained until they removed 
to Ohio. Both being ambitious they, by industry and 
thrift, prospered — gaining the respect and esteem of 
the community. Although Col. Zane at the time owned 
houses and land, and gold guineas by the 'hat full,' 
he left the young people to work out their own start 
in life — un.til, finding John Mclntire a man of integ- 
rity and business qualifications, he, in the course of a 
few years, sent him in charge of a company to locate a 
road from Wheeling, Virginia, through Ohio to Mays- 
vile, Kentucky, rewarding his services, and partly as 
his wife's dower, by granting him the tract of land 
now occupied by the city of Zanesville and surround- 
ing country. 

FOUNDING OF ZANESVILLE 

"He was the patron and father of the city of Zanes- 
ville, taking great pride in its development — using 
every efl:ort to attract first-class citizens, and to further 
its interests, leading a life of great activity for many 
years. He established a ferry where the 'Y' bridge 
now stands. Two canoes lashed together was the prim- 
itive conveyance for foot passengers across the river. 
Considering the Muskingum river his property, he ex- 
acted tribute of fishermen and others using the stream, 
wishing to turn an honest penny where he could. But 
he readily relinquished his claim when aware of his 
mistake. He was a member of the convention which 
formed the Constitution of Ohio, fully adopting the 
new state as his future home. 



26 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

MR. McINTIRE'S PERSONAL APPEARANCE. 

"The following description of John Mclntire's per- 
sonal appearance at this time was given me by Mr. John 
Sullivan, who, in his youth, saw him daily. He was of 
medium height — corpulent in person, florid complex- 
ion, auburn hair and blue eyes, a man of great dignity 
of manners, eminently a gentleman, demanding the 
respect due his position. His habitual costume was a 
suit of blue broadcloth, knee breeches, shadbelly coat, 
cocked hat and ruffled shirt. A notable figure, who 
would have attracted attention in any community. 
Having been cast upon his own resources at an early 
age, his education of course was limited, which was a 
source of great regret and mortification to him, he 
feeling daily the disadvantage under which he was 
placed. This was the reason of his bequest, wishing to 
benefit others similarly situated ; for poor boys especi- 
ally were his sympathies enlisted, being a man of great 
benevolence of heart. 

No greater encomium on the kindly nature of the 
man could be written, than his high-spirited wife fully 
forgave his one, great dereliction. She adopted Amelia 
Mclntire and raised her as her own daughter. Amelia 
was early sent to a seminary for young ladies at Bethle- 
hem, Pennsylvania, where she was educated in all the 
accomplishments of the day designed to fit her for 
her future station in life. Samples of her fine embroid- 
ery are now in the Mclntire Children's Hfime. She 
was ahva\-s delicate in health, but was tenderly cared 
for l)y her foster mother. After her return from board- 
ing school she entered into ga\- life with a zest — at- 
tending balls and parties, keo])ing late hours, fond of 
dress, receiving much attention from gentlemen. After 
Mrs. Mclntire married Rev. David Yoimg, his strict 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 27 

religious views interfered with her gaiety. She would 
not be controlled, and left her once happy home — 
boarding first in Zanesville, and as her health failed, 
going to distant relatives in Wheeling. But missing 
the fostering care she had been accustomed to, she rap- 
idly sank a victim to consumption and died at an early 
age. 

MRS. McINTIRE 

"John Mclntire owed his success in life largely to 
his wife, who was a woman of strong character, a help- 
mate indeed, making circumstances yield to her in- 
dominatable will, and, as as far as she could, keeping 
him up to a high standard. Had she lived in this day 
of woman's rights, she would not have been relegated 
to obscurity. 

" Having decided to make their future home at the 
Falls of the Muskingum river, John Mclntire erected 
the double log cabin near where the C. & M. V. depot 
now stands, then in the edge of a forest on the bank 
of the river. Mrs. Mclntire, having held herself in 
readiness, joined her husband in the fall of 1800. She, 
with her escorts, goods and chattels, came by the Ohio 
and Muskingum rivers, their means of transportation 
being dug out boats of solid logs. At night, the emi- 
grants landed and camped on the banks of the river. 
The forest was full of wild animals, and perhaps an 
Indian might 1)e seen lurking among the trees. Rut 
Mrs. Mclntire was equal to the emergency, rather 
enjoying the adventure. She brought with her the 
si(lc-l)()ard and "chest of drawers," now in the John 
Mclntire Children's Home. The furniture was made 
by her brother-in-law, John Biirkhart, a resident of 
A\nieeling, formcrl)- of IJaltimore, Maryland, an artist 
in this line of business. 



28 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

"Having established themselves in their forest home, 
they dispensed hospitality with a liberal hand, all being 
welcome to their table within the sound of the dinner 
horn. Mrs. Mclntire was a notable housewife and 
splendid cook. They were forced to entertain strangers 
passing through the new settlement to the east until a 
hotel was established. They had the honor of entertain- 
ing Louis Philippe, when an exile, traveling through 
the wilds of the United States. So impressed was he 
with Mrs. Mclntire's personality and surroundings 
that, after he became King of France, he inquired of 
an American traveler about the lady who entertained 
him so royally in the forest of America. Mrs. Mcln- 
tire was active in establishing the first Methodist 
church in Zanesville, which she sustained with means 
and influence. Foremost in all good works, as long as 
strength would permit, she was not only a mother in Is- 
real but a mother indeed to the homeless and friendless. 
Having no family of her own she adopted into her 
heart and home not less than twelve children, training 
them for useful lives, morally and religiously, sur- 
rounding them with every comfort of a happy home, 
and sending them forth fully equipped to fill honor- 
able positions in the world. 

"As means increased the log cabin gave place to 
the stone mansion, which was erected near the cabin, 
on a small liluff. This was demolished a few years 
since to give place to the march of improvement and 
the iron horse. 

CONCLUSION. 

"John McTntirc's short and eventful life of fifty- 
six years, spent in honorable activity, marks him a man 
of aliility, with noble aspirations, justifying the respect 



Of Fairiield County, Ohio. 29 

and esteem in which his memory is held as donor 
of the munificent charity which bears his name. 

'Of a social and convivial disposition, his position 
led him into temptation. He formed habits which 
shortened a life promising great usefulness. His early 
death was much regretted by the community, the citi- 
zens feeling the new settlement had lost its leading 
spirit. 

"It is well, also, to put on record in this connection 
that it was Mrs. Mclntire's money that erected and ex- 
clusively built two of Zanesville's most prominent 
churches — being the Second Street and South Street 
M. E. Churches. I make mention of this fact because 
it is not generally understood or known." 



EARLY HISTORY OF FAIRFIELD 
COUNTY, OHIO. 

J- 

/■i^ AIRFIELD County, Ohio, was the eighth county 
^F in order of time, formed out of territory now 
^ within the bounds of Ohio. Governor St. Clair 
issued his proclamation for the organization dated 
December 9, 1800, and named New Lancaster as the 
county seat. It was formed out of a portion of Ross 
and Washington. The northern boundary was the In- 
dian treaty line, which ran from Fort Laurens on 
the Tuscarawas river to Ft. Recovery on the Wabash. 
The present counties of Perry, Licking, Knox, Dela- 
ware and Franklin were within its borders. The people 
of Licking County paid taxes at Lancaster as late as 
1806. 

The first session of the Court of quarter sessions, 
the county, was held in Lancaster, January 12, 1801, 
in a log house. Emanuel Carpenter Sr., was the pre- 
siding judge and Nathaniel Wilson Sr., Samuel Car- 
penter and Daniel Van Metre were his associates, Sam- 
uel Kratzer was the sheriff. 

There were two attorneys who were sworn and au- 
thorized to appear before the Court, William Creighton 
and Alexander White. Creighton achieved distinction 
and White died in a year or two. General Sanderson 
states that he was a man of ability. 

The first county commissioners appointed by this 
Court were Nathaniel Wilson Jr., James Denny, and 

Jacob Van Metre. 

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Of Fair-field County, Ohio. 31 

October 12, 1802, Emanuel Carpenter Sr., and 
Henry Abrams were chosen to represent Fairfield 
County in the Constitutional Convention. 

The first Common Pleas Judge to hold court in 
Fairfield County after the adoption of the State Consti- 
tution was, Wyllis Silliman, a man of ability and high 
character. This was in 1803. Hugh Boyle was ap- 
pointed clerk of the Court. William Creighton, Alex- 
ander White, Philemon Beecher, William W. Irvin and 
Robert F. Slaughter appeared as attorneys. 

A brick court house was built in 1806, General John 
Williamson and his partner Hampson were the con- 
tractors. 

Robert F. Slaughter succeeded Silliman to the 
Common Pleas bench in 1805. He was a good lawyer 
and a good judge, but it has been told of him, that he 
would adjourn court for a good horse race. He was 
a Virginia gentleman, and, no doubt, had a taste for 
that favorite sport. 

Dr. William Irwin, Henry Abrams, Jacob Burton 
and Robert Cloud and Elnathan Scofield were early 
associate judges of the Common Pleas Court, also 
Emanuel Carpenter appointed in 1809. David Swayze 
and John Augustus. Hon. Leven Belt succeeded 
Judge Slaughter, March 1807. 

At the May term in 1803, the first Common Pleas 
Court, Hugh Boyle was appointed clerk. This position 
he held for thirty years. A license was granted Peter 
Reber to keep hotel or tavern in Lancaster, one to Will- 
iam Trimble to keep tavern on Zane's trace east of 
Lancaster, one to James Black and one to Samuel Ham- 
mil, to keep tavern in Newark, Ohio. 

For the January term 1804, there were forty-three 
cases on the docket. 



32 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

For the year 1805, there were on the docket 136 
civil cases. The docket does not show the names of 
counsel. In the early courts the indictments were 
chiefly for retailing liquor without license, or for as- 
sault and battery. 

The civil suits were seldom for large amounts and 
much of the time of the Court was taken up with 
guardianships and estates. This latter business was 
often attended to by the associate judges. 

The records of the Common Pleas Court of Fair- 
field County show some matters of unusual interest and 
new to this generation. At the March term a prisoner 
was tried upon an indictment procured at the January 
term, 1807, Judge Levin Belt on the bench. 

It was the State of Ohio vs. Susan Pealt. 

She was tried by a jury of good men, viz: Jacob 
Beery, Joseph Hunter, Christian Crumley, David Rees, 
Jeremiah Conway, Edward Strode, Abraham Heistand, 
David Arnold, John Beery, George W. Selby, Peter 
Fetter and Christian Foglesong. 

The defendent was found guilty, and a motion 
made for arrest of judgment, which was overruled, 
the Court sentenced the defendent to receive "eight 
stripes on her naked back," and pay the costs of prose- 
cution. This conviction was under an old territorial 
law that was still in force. 

Judge William Wilson succeeded Judge Belt as 
Common Pleas Judge in 1808, and served continuously 
until 1820, when he was succeeded by John A. Mc- 
Dowell, who served four years. 

Gustavus Swan was on the bench from 1824 to 
1829. Frederick Grimke succeeded Swan in 1830. A 
H. Keith succeeded Grimke in 1837. 



Of Fair-Held County, Ohio. 



33 



Robert F. Slaughter, John B. Orton of Perry 
County, Richard Douglas of Ross County were early 
prosecuting attorneys of Fairfield County. Thomas 
Ewing was appointed in 1817 and served until 1830. 
He was succeeded by Hocking H. Hunter, who served 
until 1837, without an exception, they became able and 
distinguished lawyers. Judges Silliman, Belt, Grimke 
and Keith lived in Chillicothe, Judges Swan and Mc- 
Dowel in Columbus, and Judge Wilson in Newark. 

In 1806, there were within the bounds of Fairfield 
County, one thousand five hundred and fifty-one tax 
payers. The presumption is that they were nearly all 
voters. In that year Edward Tiffin was voted for for 
governor and received 327 votes in Fairfield County. 
A very small vote for so many tax payers. In 1808 
Samuel Huntington received 973 votes, Thomas Worth- 
ington 192, and Thomas Kirker 3 votes. Opposition 
seems to have brought out the vote. 

David Reece, William Trimble, Philemon Beecher, 
William W. Irvin, E. B. Merwin, Thomas Ijams, 
Richard Hooker Sr., Nathaniel Wilson Sr., Emanuel 
Carpenter Jr., John Leist, Ben. Smith, Jacob Clay- 
pool, Valentine Reber, George Sanderson, Jacob Bur- 
ton, Robert F. Slaughter and Elnathan Scofield, repre- 
sented Fairfield County, in its early history, in the Gen- 
eral Assembly of Ohio. 

Philemon Beecher and William W. Irvin, became 
members of Congress — Irvin first serving as a Judge 
of the Supreme Court of Ohio, 



34 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

CHURCHES 

The first meeting houses in the county according to 
the best information obtainable were built in the town- 
ships of Richland, Rush Creek and Bloom. 

There may be some question as to priority. There 
is little doubt however, but that Richland Chapel, a 
hewed log structure was built as early, if not before 
1807. This building stood on the land of Daniel Ste- 
venson and it was built by the Methodists. A camp 
meeting was held in the grove, in that year, near the 
church, which was attended by Bishop Asbury. He 
had preached in the cabins of that neighborhood in 
1803 and formed a society. The Presbyterians built a 
hewed log church in the same year on Rush Creek 
south of the present town of West Rushville. Rev. 
John Wright of Lancaster had previously preached in 
the neighborhood. 

The Click church was built in an early day and was 
the first in Bloom township. It was built by the Evan- 
gelical Lutherans. The Methodists society of New 
Salem, built a hewed log meeting house in 1822, the 
preachers called it Lewis' Chapel in honor of Tilman 
Lewis, who gave the land on which it was built. 

The first religious society formed in Fairfield 
County, Ohio, or in the country before it was a county, 
was composed of Methodists who had emigrated from 
near Baltimore, Maryland. The members were Ed- 
ward Teal, the class leader, and wife, Jesse Spurgeon 
and wife, Ishmael Dew and wife, Nimrod Bright and 
wife and Elijah Spurgeon and wife, ten in all. 

Rev. James Quinn visited this little band of Chris- 
tians, in December, 1799, and preached in their cabins, 
spending one week with them. This settlement was 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 35 

three miles east of Lancaster on Pleasant Run, where 
Amos Webb now lives. 

The first Methodist quarterly meeting was held at 
the house of John Murphey, one mile west of West 
Rushville. Bishop Asbury and Daniel Hitt were pres- 
ent. To-day in every township of the county there are 
numerous Methodist churches. 

The first funeral in the county was that of William 
Green, May, 1798, one month after Captain Hunter's 
settlement. Nathaniel Wilson and his sons had just 
arrived in the new sttlement and Colonel Robert Wil- 
son was at the funeral. 

The Predestinarian Baptist Church of Pleasant Run 
was organized in 1806. Abraham Hite, Rev. John 
Hite, Aaron Ashbrook, Emanuel Ruffner, Rev. Lewis 
Sites, Martin Coffman, Eli Ashbrook and Christian 
Cofifman were prominent members. The society ai 
Walnut Creek was organized in 1816. 

Turkey Run has been a small but respectable society 
for many years. The early preachers of this denom- 
ination were, Rev. George DeBolt, Rev. John Elite, 
Rev. Lewis Sites, Rev. Eli Ashbrook, Rev. Cave and 
Rev. Tunis Peters. 

The Evangelical Association is quite strong in Eair- 
field County. The churches must exceed twenty in 
number, all well attended. Frederick Shower a mis- 
sionary of this society came to the county in 1816. He 
labored with more or less success, but it was not until 
1830 that the first church was built. This was built on 
the farm of John Bright, on Poplar Creek, in Liberty 
township. 

The first mill in the county was built by Joseph 
Loveland and Hezekiah Smith, at the upper falls of 
Hockhocking in 1799. It was a grist and saw mill 



86 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

combined. They came from New England and for 
twenty years were enterprising men of Fairfield 
County. Tradition says that they kept a small store 
at their mill and that the goods were brought on pack 
horses from Detroit. They also made and sold 
whisky, charging one dollar per quart. They traded 
with the Indians and their place was often the scene of 
a drunken row. Joseph Loveland, so tradition has it, 
married a Miss Shallenberger, of Berne township. 
They were succeeded in the business by Orren Abbott. 

The next mill built in the county was by the Car- 
penters, one mile below the present city of Lancaster, 
and where the mill of Abraham Deeds now stands. 
The next in order was built by Jacob Eckert, who 
married Sallie Shallenberger. This was followed by 
one built by Abraham Ream in 1804. These mills 
were all located on the Hockhocking. 

The first tan-yard in the county was owned by 
Jonathan Lynch, on the Baldwin farm. This was in 
1799. Gen. Lynch was the first tanner to locate in 
Lancaster. 

David and Henry Shallenberger built a mill about 
the time the Carpenter mill was built. Water mills 
soon became numerous upon every stream in the county 
— most of them have gone to decay and steam has 
taken the place of water. It is believed that the first 
steam mill was built by Capt. A. F. Witte, a German, 
two miles west of Lancaster. This was built in 1830, 
a distillery being a part of the equipment. 

Distilleries, small in capacity, were numerous in 
every township of the county during the first twenty- 
five years of its history. 

In a later period the most noted establishments of 
this kind were owned by Judge Chaney, Capt. Joshua 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 37 

Clarke. Capt. A. F. Witte, J. M. Ashbrook, Jerry Miller 
and Rodepouch. They made high wines which were 
shipped by canal to be rectified elsewhere. 

The g-reat temperance reform, inaugurated in 1842, 
created such a public sentiment that the small ones 
still in existence closed up and in a very few years the 
larger ones cither failed or voluntarily closed up. The 
Mithofif distillery of Lockville was the last to wind 
up — this was in 1862. The stock on hand made them 
a small fortune. 

Thomas Cessna, who lived on what is now the 
Weaver farm, one mile west of Lancaster, was the 
first to introduce fine wooled sheep into Fairfield 
County. This was as early as 181 5. 

Darius Tallmadge was the first to introduce fine 
blooded horses and Durham cattle. He owned a large 
farm near town and took great pride in its manage- 
ment and the breeding of fine stock. John T. Brasee, 
David Huber and Reber & Kutz a few years later 
brought Shorthorn cattle from Kentucky. 

Reber and Kutz and John Van Pearse brought fine 
thoroughbred horses to Lancaster. Trustee belonging 
to Van Pearse, was a fine animal. 

Reber & Kutz purchased old Fashion, the famous 
four-mile mare. Lady Canton, and imported Monarch. 
With this stock they started a breeding stable. John 
Reber soon became the sole owner and purchased Bon- 
nie Scotland, the most famous imported horse of his 
time. 

He imported Hurrah and Kyrl Daly, both great 
horses. The work of the gentlemen named gave Fair- 
field County a fine reputation among stock men and 
breeders of the countrv. After the death of Mr. Re- 



38 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

ber his horses sold at auction for the handsome sum 
of $28,000, cash. 

One of the first steam power flouring mills erected 
in Lancaster was that of R. W. Denning and Joseph 
Parker. It stood west of the canal and south of the 
Main street crossing. It was destroyed by fire in 1853. 

About the year 1818 George Ring, a Vermonter, 
built at the foot of Broad Street a large brick woolen 
mill. It was operated by water power, drawn from 
the Hockhocking at a point where Zane's trace crossed 
the stream. There are still traces of the old mill race. 

Steam has long since taken the place of water and 
the old mill is still one of the manufacturing institu- 
tions of Lancaster. In 1825 the Grand Duke of Saxe 
Weimar spent one VN^eek in Lancaster, and among other 
places of interest he visited Ring & Rice, and compli- 
mented the product of the factory. There were card- 
ing and fulling mills at other points in the county, 
but Ring & Rice were the only manufacturers of cloth. 
For forty years Lancaster was full of small shops of 
every conceivable kind, but nothing more important 
than a foundry and machine shop of Joel Smith. 
Powder was manufactured in the county upon a small 
scale. This plant was located where Abbott's store 
now stand in Madison township. 

PREHISTORIC. 

There are several ancient fortifications in Fairfield 
County, once distinct and handsome, but now de- 
spoiled by the plow. 

The most noted one is on the summit of the hill 
at the upper falls of the Hockhocking. It is 420 feet 
square with two circles at the gates; one 210 feet in 
diameter, and the other 125 feet. The small one con- 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 39 

tains a mound from the top of which a view can be 
had of the fort and all approaches and of the country 
to the east for many miles. The walls were very light 
and at this time can barely be traced. The hill is high 
and a part of the great sandstone ridge which crops 
out and ends a nule or two beyond, near the Waverly 
formation. The old work is remarkable as being the 
only perfectly square fortification found and described 
by Squire and Davis. 

There are four or five other small but unimportant 
works in the county, and one scarcely to be traced, on 
the Baugher farm, covering ten or twelve acres of 
ground. There is a small one on Rush Creek, on the 
Foresman farm. 



THE PIONEER PERIOD OF LAN- 
CASTER, OHIO. 

J' 

IN the year 1796 the Congress of the United States, 
at the instance of Gov. Arthur St. Clair, decided 
to give the President power to contract with 
Ebenezer Zane, of WheeHng, Va., to open a road from 
Wheeling, Va., to Maysville, Ky. For which services 
Zane was to receive as compensation one section of 
land at the crossing of the Muskingum river, one at 
the " Standing Rock," near the crossing of the Hock- 
hocking River, and one on the east bank of the Scioto 
River. This contract was entered into and the work 
completed in the year 1797. Col. Zane entrusted the 
work to his brother, Jonathan, and his son-in-law, 
John Mclntire. The road has always been called 
Zane's trace, and so appeared upon the early maps of 
Ohio. It was a mere bridal path, or would so be 
considered now, barely possible for wagons to pass, 
with the marshy places made passable by corduroy 
bridges (poles laid side by side and covered with 
earth). 

Capt. Joseph Hunter came in 1798 from the State 
of Kentucky. He built a cabin on the table land 
above high water, west of the Hockhocking River. 
It has always been claimed for him that he was the 
first settler of this county of Fairfield. There is a 
claim, however, that a man named Shoemaker settled 
in what is now Clear Creek township in the fall of 
1797. Gen. Jonathan Lynch came to this vicinity 
(40) 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 41 

from Uniontown, Fayette County, Penn., in the year 
1799 and built a cabin near where the brick house on 
the Baldwin farm now stands. Here he operated a 
small, old-fashioned tannery, the first in the county. 
On the 23d day of December, 1797, his son, Levi 
Lynch, was born in this cabin. This was in all prob- 
ability the 'second birth of a child in Fairfield County, 
the son of the famous Ruhama Green being the first. 
Earl}' in 1800 the Ashbaugh family came up the 
Hocking Valley and remained over night on the 
Carpenter farm, now known as the Koontz farm. 
That night a son was born to that family. The next 
birth in the county, of which we have any account, 
was that of the late Capt. Stewart, in the year 1800. 
Then followed the birth of our late distinguished fel- 
low citizen, Hocking H. Hunter, in the year 1801. 

In the year 1799 James Converse, a New England 
man, came to this valley from Marietta, with a stock 
of goods. The goods were brought by water down 
the Ohio to the mouth of the Hockhocking and from 
there poled up the latter stream to the vicinity of 
Hunter's cabin. Here he built a small log house for 
store-room and dwelling. He made a display of his 
wares on the bushes in front of his store. He was 
the first merchant of the county and when Lancaster 
was laid out, he purchased a lot, erected a building, 
and became the first merchant of the town. He sold 
goods here with varying success for ten years. In 
181 1 he loaded flatboats with produce and floated 
down the river, cither from the mouth of Rush Creek 
or down the Scioto from Chillicothe. The late Judge 
Biddle, of Indiana, his nephew, thought that he em- 
barked at Chillicothe. He reached the town of New 
Madrid in safety about the time of the great earth- 



42 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

quake of that year. And as he was never heard of 
afterwards, it is beHeved that he and his boats were 
swallowed up by that great upheaval. 

Samuel Coates, an Englishman, came to the Hock- 
hocking Valley in April, 1799. He built a cabin on 
Zane's trace on the east bank of the Hockhocking 
River, about 300 yards south of the present turnpike 
bridge. Here he lived and performed the dvities of 
postmaster until New Lancaster was laid out. Dur- 
ing this period Gen. George Sanderson, then a boy, 
carried the mail on horseback from Chillicothe to 
Zanesville, Ohio. 

At the sale of lots made by Zane, November 10, 
1800, Coates purchased one on Front street and built 
the first cabin in the town. His house stood where 
the Wizard flour mill now stands. Some years since 
it was torn down and the logs used to build a stable 
by John Fricker, on the rear of his German Street lot. 

Rev. James Quinn, then a very young man, came 
to the Valley in 1799, in the month of December, and 
spent several days with a small band of Methodists 
who had come out from Maryland. 'Tis said that he 
formed a class at the home of Edward Teal — whose 
son-in-law he afterwards became. The names of the 
members were Edward Teal and wife, Jesse Spurgen 
and wife, Ishmael Dew and wife, Nimrod Bright and 
wife and Elijah Spurgeon and wife. 

To this small band of devoted people he preached 
in a cabin on Pleasant Run near where Amos Webb 
now lives. This was the first sermon preached in the 
Hockhocking valley in what is now Fairfield County. 

After Zane had completed his trace and his work 
was accepted by the United States, he selected a sec- 
tion of land at the crossing of the Hockhocking, 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 43 

nearly or quite one half of which was west and south 
of the river and a swamp, and much of it is still un- 
claimed, and subject to overflow. 

November lo, 1800, one hundred years ago, John 
and Noah Zane, representing their father, Ebenezer, 
made a public sale of lots in the then newly laid out 
town of New Lancaster. So called, tradition says, 
at the request of Emanuel Carpenter, Sr., who lived 
near by, in honor of his old home, Lancaster, Pa. 
The lots sold at prices ranging from five to fifty dol- 
lars each, according to location. A few of the pur- 
chasers became well known men of early Lancaster 
or vicinity — Emanuel Carpenter, Sr., Peter Reber, J. 
Conway, William Trimble, N. Wilson, Hampson, 
Thomas Sturgeon, Rudolph Pitcher, Joseph Hunter, 
James Converse, Samuel Coates, J. Hanson, General 
John Williamson, John Van Meter, W. Babb, General 
Jonathan Lynch, and Thomas Worthington and 
Nathaniel Willis of Chillicothe. The purchasers of 
these lots found their property in a dense forest, in 
the midst of a wilderness. The growth of timber was 
luxuriant, consisting of the several varieties of oak, 
walnut, ash, elm, sugar maple, locust, buckeye, mul- 
berry and hickory. The pawpaw, wild plum, black 
haw, grape vine and spice wood made a thick under- 
growth. 

Many of the purchasers were mechanics, who had 
come to stay, and with undaunted courage they com- 
menced their task, and with such energy and industry 
did they pursue their work during the fall of 1800 
and winter of 1801, that early in the spring the prin- 
cipal streets were open, save the stumps, and a num- 
ber of dwellings had been erected. 



44 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

EARLY MERCHANTS 

In the year 1805 the Ohio Legislature changed the 
name of the new town to Lancaster. 

We have already given a brief reference to the 
first merchant of Lancaster, James Converse. William 
and Christian King, the second mercantile firm of 
Lancaster, came here early in 1802 and established a 
business that proved successful and continued until 
old age claimed the proprietors in 1832, when Kauff- 
man and Foster purchased their stock. For some 
cause this new firm soon failed in business. 

William and Joseph Tomlinson were early mer- 
chants. -Andrew Crocket, son-in-law of Rudolph 
Pitcher, was also an early merchant, but both firms 
were short-lived. Rudolph Pitcher was one of Lan- 
caster's early merchants as well as a tavern keeper. 
This was as early as 1800. This was on the Efiinger 
lot. In 1802 he sold to Peter Reber. 

The second wife of Rudolph Pitcher was the 
grandmother of Judge Busby. From 1802 to 1808 
Pitcher owned the Shaeffer corner and kept both 
store and tavern there. He died in 1812. Jacob 
Green was a merchant and tavern keeper in Lancaster 
as early as 1805. His location was the present one- 
story Sturgeon corner. He died in 1850. Jesse 
Reecher, l)rother of Philemon, was an early mer- 
chant, but was not successful. 

John draham, who came to Lancaster from Mary- 
land, was a merchant here as early as 1804. He died 
in 1806. He married a lady named Reed, a sister of 
Mrs. Judge Scofield and of Mrs. E. B. Merwin. 

John Woodbridge was a merchant in Lancaster as 
€arly as 1806. He moved early to Chillicothe where 
he became a distinguished citizen. 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 45 

Archibald Carnahan was a merchant of Lancaster 
as early as 1811. 

Robert Smith was one of the early merchants of 
Lancaster, and later his brother James became a mer- 
chant and was a partner of his brother-in-law, Tunis 
Cox. 

Elnathan Scofield was one of the early merchants 
of Lancaster. John Matthews was his partner for 
several years, and John Creed his early clerk. 

John Creed was a merchant of Lancaster and was 
a successful business man. For 26 years he was pres- 
ident of the Lancaster, O., Bank. 

Samuel F. Maccracken was a merchant of Lan- 
caster as early as 1810. His business career lasted 
about forty years. He was one of the best and most 
widely known of the early merchants. He was for 
ten or fifteen years one of the Fund Commissioners 
of the" State of Ohio and in his time one of the most 
distinguished citizens of Lancaster. 

Fred A. Foster came to Lancaster when a young 
man in 18 10 and for many years was a leading mer- 
chant and an influential citizen. 

John Latta and Benjamin Connell were partners 
and for many years leading merchants of the town. 
They were here as early as 181 5. Latta left a modest 
fortune to an only son, William Latta. Connell, 
after many changes in business and reverses, died 
insolvent. Both were men of high character and in- 
fluential and useful citizens. 

Timothy Sturgeon was an early silversmith. He 
was succeeded by his son, Thomas, who recently died, 
aged 91 years. 

John Connell, brother of Benjamin, was an early 
merchant. He was an elegant gentleman and a man 



46 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

of ability. He reared five daughters who were leaders 
in society. They married Lancaster men, young 
gentlemen with whom they had long been accustomed 
to meet in society, James Sherman, Gabriel Carpenter, 
James C. McCracken, John C. Fall and Dr. King. 

AN OLD-TIME WEDDING 

George Kauffman came to Lancaster in 1824 and 
opened a drug store, a business he followed success- 
fully for forty-five years. In 1833 he married Miss 
Henrietta P. Beecher, a niece of General Beecher and 
a sister of Mrs. Dr. White, who she was visiting at the 
time. The wedding took place at Zanesville, O. 
Colonel P. Van Trump and Miss Louisa Beecher, 
Gabriel Carpenter and Miss Connell were of the wed- 
ding party. Christian Rudolph conveyed the party 
to Zanesville in his four-horse coach. At Zanesville 
the groom and his bride took a coach for the east and 
visited the eastern cities and the old Beecher home at 
Litchfield, Conn. They traveled up the Hudson river 
and during Kaufifman's temporary absence on the boat 
a stranger conversed with the bride, supposing her to 
be the daughter of Dr. Kauffman, he being prema- 
turely gray, and she but sixteen years of age. The 
day after the wedding Rudolph returned with the 
other members of the party to Lancaster. His coach 
was upset on the way without harm to the occupants. 
This was an unusual occurrence for so good and care- 
ful a driver as Rudolph. Kauffman's sons are prom- 
inent business men of Columbus, Ohio. 

There were a few merchants from 1815 to 1825, 
who for short periods did a small lousiness in Lan- 
caster and we simply name them : Gushing, a partner 
of Creed, Samuel Rodgers, at first partner of the 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 47 

Kings, afterwards a distinguished citizen of Circle- 
ville, N. S. Gushing, John Black, L. B. Wing, Henry 
Darst, O. W. Rigby, Emanuel and Samuel Carpenter, 
Henry Arnold, Christian Rokohl, Henry Van Pelt Co., 
Campbell, Ruisdell Co., Browning & Noble, Miller & 
Retzel, and Owings & Thompson. McCracken, Fos- 
ter, Arnold, Creed, Kings and Latta & Connell only 
held out to the 40th year of Lancaster. 

EARLY MECHANICS 

One hundred years ago the use of machinery for 
the manufacture of everything necessary for house- 
keeping and comfortable living was unknown. Fur- 
niture, clothing and every conceivable thing was 
made by hand. Consequently mechanics formed a 
large part of the population of a town. There were 
chair makers, wheelrights, gunsmiths, tailors, shoe- 
makers, blacksmiths, carpenters, cabinet makers, 
weavers, harness makers, plow makers, wagon makers, 
tanners, tinners, coppersmiths, and hatters. The pro- 
prietor of any one of these branches of business em- 
ployed several men and all had apprentices. We are 
enabled to name a few ot the leading men who in the 
first one-third of Lancaster's first century were prom- 
inent, influential men and useful and skillful me- 
chanics. 

Of the early mechanics, George Sanderson, Ed- 
ward Sliaeffer and Jacob D. Deitrick were printers 
and publishers. Their papers were the "Independent," 
which Sanderson abandoned to go to the war of 181 2. 
Schaeffer & Dietrich published the "Ohio Eagle" in 
German and English. 

General David Reese was a brewer, where the 
Getz shoe factory now stands. He was the first man 



48 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

of Fairfield County elected to the Ohio Legislature, 
October 12, 1802. 

General Jonathan Lynch, Henry Sutzen and 
Daniel Arnott were the early tanners, in the old fash- 
ioned style. General Lynch was a man of ability and 
some distinction. Some of his descendants reside in 
Lancaster. The General died in 1818. 

General John Williamson and James Hampson 
came to Lancaster in November, 1800. They wrre 
carpenters and were the contractors who built the 
first court house, in 1806. 

General Williamson served in the war of 181 2 and 
was killed by lig-htning- in 1820 on the road two miles 
north of Lancaster. He filled the offices of county 
commissioner and sherifif of the county. 

Henry Miers, Sr., and William Duffield, brothers- 
in-law, came from A'lrginia in 1804. They were 
carpenters. Miers built the Scofield house, the first 
fine brick residence in Lancaster. Also the Swan 
hotel, now the IMithofl^. Duffield lost his life on a 
tradinf^ voyage to Xew Orleans. 

Colonel William Sumner was a native of Con- 
necticut. He came to Lancaster in 1804. He was 
a carpenter and a very prominent citizen. He served 
under General A\'illiamson in the War of 1812. 

Henry A\"etwine, John Shurr and John U. Geesy 
were bakers ]>v trade. 

James Hanly came here in 1800 and established 
the blacksmithing business. William Harper, who 
came in 1801, was a blacksmith. 

William Ream, 1801, Samuel Stoops, 1800, Thomas 
Fricker, 1805, William B. Peck, 1802, from Boston, 
Walter Turner, 1804, Jacob Wolford, 1802, were all 
hatters bv trade. 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 49 

Jacob Shaeffer, 1809, John H. and Henry W. 
Cooper were saddlers and harness makers, 1806. 

John Bly, 1804, was a potter by trade. 

Sosthenes McCabe and his father, WilHam McCabe, 
were the first brick makers and brick masons. They 
built the first brick house for Judge Scofield, now the 
office of Judge Brasee. They also made the brick 
for the first court house. They came here in 1801. 
Sosthenes McCabe and his brother Daniel were lieu- 
tenants in the war of 1812. 

Jacob Caster was a shoemaker by trade. He 
came here in 1801. 

William H. Tong was an early resident of Lan- 
caster. He was a w'heelwright by trade. Later in 
life he laid out the village of Carroll, O. 

The early tavern keepers were nearly as follows: 
Dr. Amasa Delano, 1801, William Austin, 1803, Geo. 
W. Selby, son-in-law of Dr. Silas Allen of Royalton, 
O., Robert McClelland, General Anthony Wayne's 
famous Indian scout, opened a tavern in 1801. He 
was the grandfather of Judge Hart, late of Cincin- 
nati, J. B. Hart, San Francisco, and Mrs. Charles 
Borland, Lancaster. He died near New Lexington, 
Perry county, Ohio, in 1848. Thomas Sturgeon, in 
1801, Rudolph Pitcher, George Coffinberry, Daniel 
Firestone, 1802, Dr. Ezra Torrence, from Vermont, 
Jacob Green, Jacob Boos, John Trump, father of the 
late Colonel P. Van Trump, 1810, John U. Geisy, were 
hotel keepers of the very early period. 

Later in the first third of Lancaster's history, a 
better class of hotels were kept by F. A. Shaeffer, 
John Sweyer, Gottlieb Steinman, Jacob Beck, C. Neib- 
ling, Peter Reber, E. G. Pomeroy and Colonel John 



50 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

Noble. The last named was a famous hotel man of 
the old style, both in Lancaster, Cincinnati and Col- 
umbus. He was the father of Henry C. and John 
W. Noble, late Secretary of the Interior under Har- 
rison. Both sons were born in Lancaster, O. 

Hugh Davis was a tailor by trade at a very early 
day in Lancaster. 

The foregoing is a list of the mechanics who first 
settled in Lancaster. We will endeavor to give the 
names of a longer list of mechanics who came later, 
say from 1815 to 1830, men of character and ability, 
whose useful lives had much to do in shaping the 
destiny of Lancaster. 

George Ring came to Lancaster from Vermont 
about the year 1817 and built the first substantial fac- 
tory, a large brick woolen mill at the foot of Broad 
street, propelled by the water of the Hockhocking. 
It is still in operation, operated by steam. But the 
builder was long since numbered with the dead. 

Colonel John Noble came to Lancaster, a tailor, 
in 181 5. He rose to distinction and became one of 
the leading citizens of the town. He was the Fair- 
field County committeeman, associated with Judge 
Scofield, to meet Governor DeWitt Clinton at Hebron 
in 1825, and escort him to Lancaster. 

Samuel Effinger came here from Virginia in 181 3. 
He was a tin and coppersmith and conducted for 
years a large business. He died in 1833, soon after 
completing his new residence, northwest corner Pub- 
lic Square, His skilled mechanics were John A. 
Shrafif, Richard and Milton Hampton, David Kyner, 
Philip Lantz, William Searls, Thomas Durham, Elias 
Prentice, Jacob Evans, John McClelland and John 
Work. 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 51 

Joshua Clark was a builder and contractor, who 
came here about the year 1817 from Oswego, New 
York. He became a distinguished, highly esteemed and 
influential citizen. 

Henry Orman, a contractor and builder, came here 
in 1824. He lived an honorable and useful life and 
died recently at the advanced age of 95 years. 

Jacob Beck was a blacksmith in the year 1820. In 
the year 1830 he was county treasurer. He died a 
year or two since, aged about 95 years. 

Joseph Work came to Lancaster early in the twen- 
ties and engaged in the shoe making business. He was 
an exemplary man, a good business man and a good 
citizen. He was during his life an honored member 
of the Presbyterian Church. 

Christopher Weaver was a carpenter in Lan- 
caster prior to 181 2. He married a daughter of Fred- 
erick Arnold. They were among the original members 
of the Methodist Church. He was at one time county 
commissioner. He died July 5, 1829. 

George Beck, Sr., came to Lancaster from Ger- 
many. He was a ropemaker by trade. 

F. A. Shaffer came here in 181 1. He was at first 
a tailor, and in time became a leading hotel keeper. 

Tole McManamy was a brick mason. He was 
killed in 1830 by the falling of a pump he was lifting. 

Jacob Embich was a shoemaker. He came here 
from Hagerstown, Maryland, in 181 5. 

Jesse Woltz came from the same town in 181 5. 
He was a cabinet-maker. He died in Chillicothe. 

John Stull came here in 1801. He was a carpenter. 
He died in 1846. 



62 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

Samuel Herr came here in 1815 from Hagerstown, 
Maryland. He was a cabinet-maker and undertaker. 
He died in 1858. 

Walter Mcuonald came to Lancaster from Wash- 
ington, D. C, in 1816. He was a chairmaker. 

James Weakley came to Lancaster in 18 17. He 
was a carpenter. He built the Presbyterian church. 

George Hood, Sr., came here in 1816. He was 
a painter by trade. His wife was a relative of one of 
the governors of Maryland. 

Amos Hunter came to Lancaster in 18 10, and for 
54 years worked at the blacksmith trade. 

James Geis came from Germany in 181 7. He 
was a carpenter and millwright. 

John B. Reed was born in Greenfield, Fairfield 
County, Ohio, in 1809. He was a chairmaker and 
painter, and no mean artist for his opportunities. 

John and Samuel Matlack were partners in the 
harness and saddlery business as early as 1819. The 
sister of these gentlemen was the wife of H. tl. 
Hunter. 

Joseph Grubb came here prior to 1820, for in that 
year he married a daughter of Jacob Claypool. He 
was a chairmaker. 

Henry Drum was a cooper in Lancaster as early 
as 1822. He was postmaster under General Jackson 
for a short time, and died while postmaster. 

Henry Bubble was an early resident of Lancaster. 
His trade was that of a coverlet weaver. In 1830 with 
General Sanderson and Reverend Samuel Carpenter, 
he was a director of our first public schools. He was 
a brother-in-law of Colonel John Noble and ot John 
Swever, the famous landlord. 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 53 

Isaac Church came here in 1816. He was a 
carpenter and possessed a o-ood Rnowledge of architec- 
ture. One of his daug-nters married Jacob Ulrick. 

George Canode came to Lancaster early, long 
before 181 2. He was a shoemaker. He married a 
daughter of Frederick Arnold, and the two were of 
the first members of the Methodist Church. 

Joel Smith came to Lancaster from Virginia in 
1826. and built and operated the first foundry in Lan- 
caster. 

Sometime prior to 1830 S. F. Maccracken and 
William E. Thorne operated a tannery at the foot of 
Broad street. They were succeeded in the business by 
James M. Pratt. 

General George Sanderson and his partner Oswald 
established the Lancaster Gazette, the organ of the 
Whig party, in 1826. General Reese and Colonel P. 
Van Trump were connected with it some years later. 
George Sanderson, a son of the General, who worked 
on the paper in his yO'Uth, lives in Lancaster. 



PROFESSIONAL MEN. 

CHE professional men of Lancaster for the first 
forty years were not numerous, but they were, 
with few exceptions, very able and brilliant men. 

Robert F. Slaughter, a Virginian, came to Lan- 
caster from Kentucky in 1800. He was the first law- 
yer to open an office in the new town. 

William Creighton and Alexander White were 
sworn in as attorneys, January 12, 1801. White died 
in two or three years and Creighton moved to Chilli- 
cothe where he became distinguished. 

Philemon Beecher came here a young man from 
Litchfield, Connecticut, in 1801, and opened a law 
office. He soon married Susan, a daughter of Neil 
Gillespie, whom he met while she was visiting her 
sister, Mrs. Hugh Boyle, in Lancaster. One of the 
daughters by this marriage married Henry Stanbery, 
and the other Colonel P. Van Trump. General Beecher 
was a good lawyer and an honorable man. He served 
as a member of the Ohio Legislature and as a member 
of Congress for ten years. He died in 1839, aged 64 
years. 

Referring to Judge Slaughter, he was a man of 
ability and a good lawyer. He served one term as 
judge of the Common Pleas Court, was prosecuting 
attorney, and for several terms a member of both 
branches of the Ohio Legislature. 

William W. Irvin came to Lancaster about the 
same time as General Beecher. He was a member of 
(-4) 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 55 

the Ohio Legislature and while yet a young man was 
elected a judge of the Supreme Court of Ohio. Later 
in life he succeeded General Beecher as a member of 
Congress. He had a long and honorable career, and 
left behind him a good name. The wife of Judge 
Irvin was E^i^abeth Gillespie, a sister of Mrs. Boyle 
and of Mrs. General Beecher. 

Hugh Boyle, mentioned above, was appointed clerk 
of the Common Pleas Court in 1803, and served as such 
for 30 years. 

E. B. Merwin came to Lancaster in 1804 from 
Vermont. He was an attorney of prominence and 
represented Fairfield County in the Legislature. He 
married a Miss Reed, a sister of Mrs. Judge Scofield. 
In 181 5 he moved to Zanesville, Ohio. 

This is a list of the very early attorneys of Lan- 
caster — Lawyers from Chillicothe and Zanesville at- 
tended all of the courts, for it was the habit then, and 
for forty years, for gentlemen of the bar to travel the 
circuit, following the Court from county to county. 

Charles Robert Sherman came to Lancaster from 
Norwalk, Connecticut, in the year 1810. In the winter 
of 181 1 he returned to Connecticut to bring out his 
wife and infant child. In the spring of that year he, 
with his wife and infant son, Charles Taylor, left 
Connecticut on horseback and made their way through 
an almost unbroken wilderness to Lancaster, enduring 
hardships and privations that only spirited and cour- 
ageous people could have endured and overcome. He 
opened a law office and soon rose rapidly in his pro- 
fession and in the estimation of his fellow citizens, and 
became an eminent lawyer for that period. In the 
year 1823, he was elected by the Legislature a judge 
of the Supreme Court of Ohio. His associates were 



56 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

eminent men and to sit with them, on the Supreme 
bench of Ohio, was worthy of the ambition of any 
man. While holding court in Lebanon, Ohio, he was 
taken sick, and died there in July, 1829. During- his 
life, Judge Sherman was the ablest and most popular 
man of Lancaster. He was the father of John and Gen- 
eral William T. Sherman, two of the most distinguished 
native sons of Lancaster, and the two most distin- 
guished brothers the United States has produced. The 
career of Judge Sherman and his sons has shed un- 
dying luster upon Lancaster. 

In the year 181 5 there came to Lancaster a bril- 
liant and ambitious young man. He had o-btained an 
education under circumstances of hardship and priva- 
tions, that would have deterred a less ambitious man 
or one lacking his thirst for learning. Thomas Ewing 
entered the law office of General Beecher in the spring 
of 181 5. He had previously read Blackstone. For 
fourteen months he applied himself to study, sixteen 
hours each day, and at the end of that time was ad- 
mitted to the Bar. 

Mr. Ewing was tor eight years prosecuting attor- 
ney for the county of Athens, and was for twelve years 
prosecuting attorney of Fairfield County, fillmg both 
offices at the same time. In 1831 he was elected a 
senator of the United States for Ohio. In 1840 he was 
Secretary of the Treasury and in 1849 Secretary of the 
Interior. Again in 1851 he was appointed United 
States senator by Governor Ford. This was the last 
public office held by Mr. Ewing. He then gave his at- 
tention to the law. , 

Mr. Ewing was one of the great lawyers of his 
time, or of any time, and in a purely legal argument 
before a court he was without a rival. 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 57 

It is said of him, that he once addressed the 
Supreme Court at great length, criticising one of their 
decisions and prevailed upon the judges to reverse it. 

The late Judge Biddle, of Indiana, said or wrote : 
— Mr. Ewing was o^ne of the great men and great 
lawyers of this nation, second only to Daniel Wehster. 

Mr. Ewing was great mentally and physically. 
He was a man of splendid form, strong and very 
active. He died October 20, 1871. No man could 
look upon Thomas Ewing withoait admiring him, or 
fail to be impressed with his wonderful presence. He 
once entered the Supreme Court room at Washington, 
in the midst of an important argument. The attorney 
ceased to speak, and O'fifered Mr. Ewing his hand, and 
one by one, each judge upon the bench shook hands 
with him before the attorney proceeded with his argu- 
ment. We are indebted for this incident to the late 
Major Johnson, of Piqua, Ohio, who was present in 
the court room at the time. 

In the year 1825 Henry Stanbery came to Lan- 
caster and formed a partnership with Thomas Ewing, 
which continued until 1830. 

Henry Stanbery was an able and popular lawyer, 
and he was generally opposed to Mr. Ewing on all 
the great cases of the time. He was attorney general 
of Ohio and of the United States. Mr. Stanbery was 
a polite and courtly gentleman ; he was tall and stately 
and a man of fine appearance. 

H. H. Hunter, one of Lancaster's very distin- 
guished lawyers, was born here in 1801. He came to 
the bar about the time Stanbery settled here. He was 
a hard working patient lawyer and his reputation as 
an honest capable attorney grew with the years. Dur- 
ing the Civil War he was elected judge of the Supreme 



58 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

Court of Ohio. He qualified, but for business reasons 
did not serve. The office had come to him without 
sohcitation but he could not afford to accept it. 

In the year 1855 the writer came to Lancaster 
from the farm to act as deputy sheriff of the county. 
Mr. Hunter was then 54 years of age and in the full- 
tide of prosperity as a lawyer. He was the leading 
lawyer at the Lancaster bar, and he was generally 
classed as one of the ablest lawyers of the state of 
Ohio. His business then, and for many years, called 
him from his home for weeks at a time. His children 
were left to the care of his wife at a period when they 
had most need of his attention and faithful care. 

He met the writer soon after his advent in the 
town and said to him, "Whv did you leave the farm 
and come to town? You have made a great mistake, 
the mistake that hundreds of young men make. I re- 
gret that I did not begin life upon a farm and pursue 
that calling for a living, like my friend Jacob Beck ; I 
would then have been with my family and have lived 
a quiet unobtrusive life and would have been a happier 
man." 

This expression of so distinguished a man as Mr. 
Hunter on the subject of the choice of a profession, 
made at a time when he was most capable of giving 
a calm and dispassionate opinion, is worthy of the 
thoughtful consideration of every intelligent young 
man. In the home and the pursuit of business, if that 
business is congenial, true happiness is found. 

John T. Brasee, one of the four great lawyers of 
Lancaster, came to the bar here about the year 1833, 
moving from Gallipolis. He spent some years at 
Athens educating himself, and in the study of the law. 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 59 

Mr. Brasee was an able, pains-taking lawyer, and 
was always thoroughly prepared when his cases were 
called. His recreation was farming and raising stock. 
He owned 1,200 acres of good land, and farmed it 
successfully. Mr. Brasee was an elegant gentleman, 
and generally, if not always, appeared upon our streets 
wearing a silk hat and black swallow-tailed coat. No 
better man or fairer man ever lived in Lancaster. No 
man was more thoroughly self-made. The only pub- 
lic office he ever held was that of state senator. 

Wm. Medill came to Lancaster in the year 1833. 
He was a young lawyer of good education, and soon 
became prominent in the town. He soon drifted into 
politics. Became a member of the legislature, then a 
member of congress. He filled positions under Polk 
and Buchanan in Washington. 

He was both Lieutenant-Governor and Governor of 
Ohio. 

John Brough came to Lancaster in 1834. He was 
a lawyer, but preferred to edit a newspaper, the " Ohio 
Eagle," which he did with great ability. Brough re- 
sided in Lancaster about six years. His caustic edi- 
torials made him both friends and enemies. He also 
developed a fine talent for public speaking. His first 
fine speech to attract attention was made in Somerset, 
Ohio. In the heat of one of his great campaigns his 
first wife died. He had been posted for several days to 
speak at the court house. He buried his wife, shook 
hands with the pall bearers, and remarked : " I have 
discharged my duty to the dead, I will now discharge 
it to the living." He walked to the court house and 
made an able political speech. One must read his 
paper of that period and understand the extraordinary 
personal campaign, of both parties in 1836 and 1840,. 



60 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

otherwise the story of that speech would seem incred- 
ible. 

Brough was not seen in Lancaster after 1840 for 
more than twenty years. He then as a candidate and 
as Governor delivered masterly and brilliant speeches. 

John M. Creed, a son of the pioneer merchant, was 
a fair lawyer and a -^^ery brilliant orator. He repre- 
sented Fairfield County in the Ohio Legislature, and 
was chosen speaker of the House. 

He was a delegate to the Harrisburg convention in 
1839, and delivered a brilliant speech, nominating Gen. 
Harrison, of Ohio, for the presidency. 

He carried the convention with him, and there was 
a scene much like that which greeted Ingersoll when 
he nominated James G. Blaine, at Cincinnati. Creed 
was an apostle of temperance, and was the leading 
speaker in the great reform of 1841 and 1842. He 
was a member of the Methodist Church, and the super- 
intendent of the Sunday school. He died about the 
year 1848. 

Darius Tallmadge was identified with Lancaster 
as early as 1833. He was manager and part owner 
of the great stage lines of Neil, Moore & Co. which 
were operated between Wheeling, Va., and St. Louis, 
Mo., with numerous branches. Mr. Tallmadge was 
one of the most brainy men in the business circles of 
Lancaster. A man of wonderful energy and industry, 
endowed with rare common sense and executive talent. 
It is hard to name a man to whom the early period of 
Lancaster is so much indebted as to Darius Tallmadge. 

In 1833 the Union Hotel owned by Col. John 
Noble, and run by Gottlieb Steinman, was destroyed 
iDy fire. A company of citizens was soon formed and 
a new brick hotel arose from its ashes, and it was 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 61 

called the Phoenix. In a few years Tallmadge pur- 
chased this building, enlarged and improved it and 
named it the Tallmadge. Mr. Tallmadge was presi- 
dent of the Hocking Valley Bank, the second bank 
established in Lancaster, and so continued until it was 
changed to the Hocking Valley National Bank. At 
one time Mr. Tallmadge owned a splendid farm of sev- 
eral hundred acres adjoining town. This he greatly 
improved and stocked with thoroughbred horses and 
cattle. During his active business career he was a 
very liberal man, contributing to every useful project 
for the good of the town, and liberally to the unfor- 
tunate. The career of but few men will be longer re- 
membered in Lancaster than that of Darius Tallmadge. 

PHYSICIANS 

Of the early physicians of Lancaster, Dr. Amasa 
Delano was one of the first to settle here. He came 
here late in the year 1800. Where he came from or 
what became of him we cannot state. He was a 
brother-in-law of Robert Russell, who was a merchant 
many years in Franklinton and Columbus, and who 
late in life moved to Tiffin, Ohio. 

Dr. Wni. Kerr came here and began the practice 
of medicine in 1801. 

Dr. John M. Shaug came here from Kentucky in 
1801, but did not bring his family until 1806. He 
lived where the Columbian block now stands. 

Dr. Ezra Torrence came here from Vermont in 
1804. He lived here in 181 5 and kept a tavern. 

Dr. Robert Wilcox came here, an old man, in 1806. 
He had been an army surgeon in the Revolutionary 
War. He died in 1812. 



62 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

Dr. Daniel Smith came here from Virginia in the 
year 1810. He was a member of the Ohio Legislature 
in 1817 and 1818. He returned to Virginia and died 
there. 

Dr. James Wilson came here from Virginia in 
1804. He married the daughter of Thomas Sturgeon. 
He died in 1823, and a few years later his widow mar- 
ried John Latta, a prominent merchant. 

Dr. William Irwin was an early resident of Lan- 
caster. 

Dr. Robert McNeill, the most prominent of our 
early physicians, came here at an early day from Del- 
aware. He married a daughter of Henry Arnold. 

Dr. James White came here from Philadelphia 
about the year 1820. He became one of the prominent 
men of Lancaster and an able physician. He married 
a njece of Gen. Beecher. 

Dr. M. Z. Kreider came from Pennsylvania, and 
settled first in Royalton, Ohio. He came to Lancaster 
about the year 1830. He was a fine surgeon and a man 
of rare intellect. He soon became one of the leading 
citizens, and a man of many accomplishments. He 
represented Fairfield County in the Ohio Legislature, 
was for several years clerk of the Court of Common 
Pleas ; was very prominent in the great temperance 
reformation. He was a splendid conversationalist and 
a fine speaker. He was an enthusiastic Free Mason, 
and filled all the prominent or chief offices of that 
order. He was the first Grand Eminent Commander 
of Knights Templar of Ohio, and Grand Master of the 
order in Ohio at the time of his death in 1852. 

Dr. H. H. Wait, a Virginian, was a physician of 
some note in Lancaster prior to 1830, and resided here 
for several years. 



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RELIGIOUS 

The first minister to establish himself in Lancaster 
and gather about him a congregation, was Rev. John 
Wright, a native of Pennsylvania. He came first in 
1801 as a missionary ; later, he in a year or two re- 
turned and commenced the work of a pastor, and con- 
tinued in that relation until the year 1835. 

The first Presbyterian Church was built in 1823, 
a modest, unpretentious brick building. 

The first Methodist to preach in Lancaster was 
Bishop Asbu^y, about 1805, in a school house, and in 
1809 in the *iew court house. 

It is proba.ble that Rev. James B. Findlay preached 
in Lancaster as early as 181 1, as he was on the Fair- 
field circuit that year. This was about the time the 
first society was formed. 

Four sisters, daughters of Frederick Arnold, and 
their husbands, Peter Reber, Thomas Orr, Geo. Can- 
ode and Christopher Weaver, with Jacob D. Deitrich 
and wife, formed the first society of which we have 
any account. 

The first church building, a frame structure, was 
built in 1816. James Quinn and John McMahon were 
the preachers then on the Fairfield circuit. 

Rev. Michael Steck, of the Lutheran Church, came 
here in 1816, and took charge of a society that had 
been preached to occasionally by missionaries. He at 
first preached in the Court House, but in 1819 a church 
building was erected at the foot of Wheeling street. 

An old Lutheran said to the writer a year or two 
since : " Rev. Steck and Rev. Wright worked to- 
gether like brothers." 

In 1829 Rev. Steck resigned and returned to his 
old home in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. He was sue- 



64 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

ceeded by Rev. John Wagenhals, who had a long and 
useful career in Lancaster. 

The Baptist Church was organized in Lancaster by 
the Rev. George Debolt, who resided in Walnut town- 
ship. This was in the year 1817. Isaac Church and 
wife were among the first members. Rev. William 
White, the father of Dr. J. White, succeeded Debolt 
and he in turn was succeeded by Rev. Samuel Car- 
penter. 

There were Catholic families among the early pio- 
neers, and they were visited by missionary priests. The 
first church building was built and completed in 1822, 
at the foot of Chestnut Street. 

The Dominican Fathers, of St. Joseph's, Perry 
County, Ohio, supplied the pastors of this congregation 
until 1839. 

SCHOOLS 

The schools of Lancaster during the early period 
of its history were taught by some very good teachers, 
and paid for by subscription. 

James Hunter, brother of Amos, and grandfather 
of Frank and Elmer Hunter, of Lancaster, was in all 
probability the first teacher of Lancaster. 

Miss Butler came here from New York State in 
1812 and taught school. In 1813 she became the wife 
of Christian King, the merchant. Her school house 
(log) stood where Dr. Samson's office is now located. 

Wesley Newman came here from Oswego, New 
York, in the early days prior to 1820, and taught school 
for years in Lancaster. A daughter of his is a resi- 
dent of Lancaster. Joel A. Parsons came to Lancaster 
from Maine in 1829. He taught school in Lancaster, 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 65 

and was one of the first teachers to be employed by the 
new school board in 1830. 

In 1830 the public school system of Ohio was in- 
augurated. Lancaster organized by electing Gen. 
Sanderson, Rev. Samuel Carpenter and Henry Dubble, 
three prominent and representative men, to the school 
board. Small houses were builit on Walnut and 
Chestnut Streets, and perhaps elsewhere. L. A. Blair 
was an early teacher in the public schools. Early in 
the history of Lancaster an academy was projected, a 
building erected, and the new school was soon put in 
operation. This was in the year 1820. 

A Mr. Vv'hittlesey was the first principal. John T. 
Brasee had charge of it in 1826. Salmon Shaw was 
its principal for some time. Judge Irvin, Judge Sher- 
man, Thomas Ewing, Gen. Beecher, Judge Scofield, 
Judge Slaughter, Col. John Noble and Gottlieb Stein- 
man were the principal promoters. Samuel L. and 
Mark Howe took charge as early as 1830, and managed 
it a year or two when the owners decided to close the 
academy. The Howes then built a frame structure on 
Mulberry Street, and for many years conducted a first- 
class school. The prominent men of Lancaster of later 
years received the ground work of their education in 
these two schools. John Sherman* never attended any 
other place of learning, except when quite a boy, in 
Mt. Vernon, Ohio. In this connection, though not 
within the scope of this sketch, we mention Dr. Wil- 
liams, the greatest scholar and teacher of Lancaster. 
He taught the Greenfield academy at the time Howe's 
academy flourished in Lancaster. Dr. Williams was a 
great educator, and after closing his academy came to 
Lancaster and was superintendent of the union schools. 

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66 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

FINANCIAL 

The first financial institution of Lancaster was the 
Lancaster Bank. It was organized and commenced 
business Aug. 30, 1816. Philemon Beecher was 
president for one year, when he was succeeded by 
John Creed, who held the office until the bank closed 
its doors in 1842. Michael Garaghty was the cashier 
during its existence. The directors who organized 
and managed the bank during its early years were 
Philemon Beecher, Elnathan Scofield, Jacob Claypool, 
Peter Reber, Charles R. Sherman, John Wliliamson, 
Jacob Green, Daniel Van Meter, William King, 
Richard Hooker, Benjamin Smith and S. F. Mac- 
cracken, all able, reputable men. Hooker, Claypool 
and Van Meter were large farmers and the leading 
men of that calling in the county. Van Meter was 
associate judge of the court, and Claypool and Hooker 
were prominent members of the Ohio Legislature. 
In 1827 this bank became the financial agent for the 
State of Ohio. It handled all of the money provided 
for the construction of the Ohio canals and paid the 
contractors. In 1836 but three other banks in Ohio 
made a better financial exhibit. For seventeen years 
this bank declared a dividend of 19 per cent. But 
reverses came in 1842 and H. H. Hunter, Judge 
Stukey and Jacob Green were apointed receivers. 



THE GROWTH OF LANCASTER. 

CHE progress of Lancaster from a few cabins in 
1800 and 1 80 1 to a g-ood town and in one hun- 
dred years to a fine city of 9,000 people was very 
gradual. The only communication with the outside 
world for thirty-four years was over the rough and un- 
improved road to the east • — with deep streams to ford, 
often impassable, and rivers to ferry. The only outlet 
for produce was in wagons over this road to Baltimore, 
Md., and by flatboats down the Hockhocking and 
Ohio rivers to New Orleans. On this latter route 
several Lancaster citizens lost their lives. Before 
steam navigation these adventurous men, after dis- 
posing of their produce, returned on foot or on horse- 
back through a wilderness infested by robbers. With 
such facilities it is a wonder that the town grew at all. 
The inhabitants were bold, enterprising men from 
\'irginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania. Delaware, New 
York and New England, and they were equal to the 
dangers and hardships of the wilderness. Their 
clothing, their furniture, their food was produced at 
home, and their courage, their sacrifices and economy 
laid the foundation of a great and intelligent com- 
munity. 

Josiah Espy, long a cashier of a Columbus bank, 

found Lancaster in 1805 growing very rapidly. There 

were then ninety dwelling houses, some of them very 

commodious. Projjerty was high and the people con- 

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68 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

fidently expected Lancaster to become the state 
capitol. 

In the year 1815 Dr. John Cotton of Marietta 
found Lancaster a flourishing- town of eight hundred 
to one thousand inhabitants, surrounded by a beautiful 
and well cultivated country. 

Kilbourne in his Gazette for the year 1818, says 
of Lancaster. "It contains between one and two 
hundred houses and a population of 600 to 700, 
twelve merchants, court house and jail, a Methodist 
church, one bank, one English and German news- 
paper, and numerous mechanics. 

In his edition of 1829 he found ten large stores and 
seven taverns, first class for their time, two hundred 
and fifty homes and fifteen hundred inhabitants. A 
large number of the dwellings were built of brick. 
A new market house, with town hall and Masonic 
lodge above, four cliurches and good schools. An 
academy then in high repute. 

In 1820 Lancaster and Hocking township cast 338 
votes, of which Brown, the Jeflferson candidate, re- 
ceived 328, Jeremiah Morrow 8, and General' W. H. 
Harrison 2. This vote was for governor. 

The monotony of life in the town was broken in 
1825 when the citizens united in giving a compli- 
mentary dinner to Henry Clay. The last survivor of 
this banquet was the late Noah S. Gregg of Circle- 
ville, Ohio. 

The Duke of Saxe Weimar, Germany, visited Lan- 
caster in 1825 and found it a flourishing town with a 
large woolen mill owned by Ring and Rice. He met 
Judge Sherman, one of the most respectable inhabi- 
tants of the place. He was invited to tea and r.:et 
with very agreeable society. 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 69 

As early as 1834 there was a public library in 
Lancaster. Messrs. Ewing, Wm. T. Reese, Dr. Rob- 
ert McN^eill, John T. Brasee, Hocking H. Hunter, 
Dr. AI. Z. Kreider, George Reber, P. Van Trump, 
Henry Stanbery, William Medill and Samuel F. 
Maccracken were the directors. In 1833 the people of 
Lancaster petitioned the Legislature for a charter for 
a railroad down the Hocking valley to Parkersburg, 
Va. This road was to connect with the Lateral Canal 
at Lancaster. This was thirty years prior to the char- 
ter of the present H. V. railroad. 

The Lateral Canal was completed in 1834 connect- 
ing Lancaster with the Ohio Canal at Carroll, giving 
Lancaster unbroken water communication with New 
York. From this date Lancaster grew and prospered. 
She emerged from the pioneer period a good solid 
town, her lawyers and great merchants gave her 
fame and position and her prosperity was then on- 
ward and upward. In a few years the Hocking Canal 
was completed to Athens ; the Zanesville and Mays- 
ville turnpike was completed in 1840 or 1842 Later 
on came the Cincinnati, Wilmington and Zanesville 
railroad and the Hocking Valley railroad. 

Fine school houses were built and fine churches 
pointed their spires heavenward in various parts of 
the town. 

A few factories sprang up and some of them 
prospered. Finally, natural gas was discovered, the 
greatest boon in the history of Lancaster. This 
brought other factories and many new and enterpris- 
ing people, and Lancaster reached the century mark 
with nine thousand inhabitants. A handsome little city, 
with brick-paved streets, fine water works, and a paid 
and well equipped fire department. 



PIONEER FAMILIES. 

J* 

SOME BIRTH, MARRIAGE AND DEATH RECORDS OF THE 
STURGEON, WILSON AND LATTA FAMILIES, ONCE VERY 
PROMINENT IN LANCASTER. 

STURGEON 

MARRIAGES. 

CHOMAS STURGEON and Jane McEwen were 
married November i, 1796. 
Effia Sturgeon and Dr. James Wilson were 
married July 5, 1814. 

BIRTHS. 

Thomas Sturgeon, born February 2, 1772. 

Jane McEwen, born April 11, 1774. 

[Both came from Dauphin County, Penn., in 1800.] 

Effia Sturgeon, born January 3, 1798. 

Richland McEwen Sturgeon, born January i, 1800. 

Jane Maria Sturgeon, born April 17, 1802. 

Robert Sturgeon, born March 29, 1805. 

Brice J. Sterret Sturgeon, born December 5, 1810. 

Timothy Sturgeon, born October 29, 1812. 



Jane Maria Sturgeon, died January 25, 1822. 
Timothy Sturgeon, died June 10, 1823. 
Robert Sturgeon, died October 8, 1824. 
Richland McEwen Sturgeon, died March 11, 1827. 
Thomas Sturgeon, died January 19, 1828. 
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Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 71 

Jane McEwen Sturgeon, died November 9, 1843. 

Brice J. Sterret Sturgeon, died November 10, 1843. 

Thomas Sturgeon, whose family makes this record, 
was an uncle of the present Thomas Sturgeon. He 
kept tavern until 1824 in the old brick house, now 
occupied in part by Dr. Silbaugh. Brice J. Sterret, 
whose name appears, must have been a relative. He 
owned the section of land east of Maple street. He 
returned to Pennsylvania in 1820 and died there. 

WILSON 

[RECORDS FROM DR. JAMES WILSON'S BIBLE.] 
BIRTHS. 

James Wilson, born September 25, 1780, in Loudon 
County, Virginia. 

Effia Wilson, born January 3, 1798, Pennsylania, 
Dauphin County. 

Maria Elizabeth Wilson, born September 2, 181 5, 
3 p. m. 

John Alexander Wilson, born January 8, 1819, 4 
a. m. 

Jane Amanda Wilson, born January 22, 1821, at 10 
p. m. 

James S. Wilson, born March 14, 1823, 6 p. m. 



John Alexander Wilson departed this life August 
25, A. D. 1820, aged i year, 7 months, 18 days. 

Jane Amanda Wilson departed this life May 31, 
1822, aged I year, 4 months and 9 days. 

Dr. James Wilson departed this life September 
28, 1823, aged 43 years and 2 days. 

Maria E. Bull departed this life June 11, 1837. 

James Wilson departed this life October 26, 1849. 



72 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

MARRIAGES. 

Dr. James Wilson was married to Effia Sturgeon, 
July 5, 1814. 

Maria E. Wilson was married to George F. Bull, 
January 3, 1836. 

Dr. James Wilson died in the prime of life. But 
he had achieved a reputation Mid was one of the lead- 
ing citizens of Lancaster long before the date of his 
death. His daughteir Maria was an accomplished 
woman, and died about one year after her marriage to 
George F. Bull. 

John Latta was born September 9, 178'J, in West- 
moreland county, Pennsylvania. 

William Latta, son of John and Effia Latta. was 
born September 16, 1825, at 9 a. m., in Lancaster, Fair- 
field county, Ohio. 

Jane Latta was born January 17, 1828, at 9 p. m., 
Lancaster, Ohio. 

Elizabeth T. Smith was born August 3, 1829. 

John Latta was a descendant of William Latta, of 
Revolutionary fame, who took his Bible and gun and 
went into the Revolutionary war and fought and 
preached. This bit of history was given me by a 
member of his family. 

John Latta was one of the distinguished old-time 
merchants of Lancaster, a man of character and ability. 

LATTA 
BIRTHS. 

Born on Saturday morning at 6^ o'clock, January 
31, 1852, John Latta, son of Wm. and Elizabeth T. 
Latta. 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 73 

Born on Tuesday evening, January 24, 1854, at 8^ 
o'clock, James White Latta, son of William and Eliz- 
abeth T. Latta. 

Born on Tuesday morning, at 9f o'clock, May 8, 
1856, William Latta, son of William and Elizabeth 
Latta. 

Born on Tuesday evening, August 17, 1858, at 
105 o'clock, Katharine Latta, daughter of William 
and Elizabeth T. Latta. 

Born on Wednesday evening", November 21, i860, 
at 8^ o'clock, Elizabeth Latta, daughter of William 
and Elizabeth T. Latta. 

Born on Friday at 33 o'clock p. m., September 11, 
1868, Morton Brazee Latta, son of William and Eliza- 
beth T. Latta, Lancaster, Ohio. 

James H. Smith, father of Mrs. E. T. Latta, was 
one of a distinguished pioneer family. He was a mer- 
chant in partnership with his brother-in-law, Tunis 
Cox. They married sisters, daughters of the Rev. 
William White. Smith died about the year 1835. 
His widow married Joseph Grubb, then a prominent 
Lancaster man. 

MARRIAGES. 

John Latta and Effia Wilson were married Decem- 
ber 2, 1824. 

William Latta, son of John and Efifia Latta, and 
Elizabeth Tacy Smith, daughter of James H. and 
Elizabeth Smith, were married December 10, 1850, 
Lancaster, Ohio. 



John Latta died on Sunday, the 8th day of March, 
1846, at 2 p. M. 



74 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

Effia Latta died July 15, 1828, at 5 a. m., Tuesday. 

Jane Latta died on ^Sunday, February 24, 1828. 

William Latta died on Friday, the 13th day of No- 
vember, 1874, at 6:30 o'clock A. M., aged 49 years, 9 
months and 28 days. 



REMINISCENCES 



OF THE SEVERAL VISITS OF THE LATE JAMES G. BLAINE 
TO LANCASTER 

CHE first visit of James G. Blaine to Lancaster was 
made when a lad twelve or thirteen years of age. 
He came to visit the children of his cousin, Mrs. 
Senator Ewing, and his stay here extended over several 
months. This visit was early in the forties, during a 
time of great political excitement. One of the incidents 
of this visit was a trip, made by the three boys, Tom, 
and Hugh Ewing, and Blaine, to Columbus, where they 
put up at the hotel of Colonel John Noble, once a 
famous landlord of Lancaster and the father of Secre- 
tary Noble. On their trip, in passing Greencastle, 
they discovered a hickory pole and flag, the emblem of 
Democracy ; when Blaine and Tom Ewing took oflf 
their hats and waving them in the air gave three cheers 
for Harrison. Hugh remonstrated with them for what 
he called unbecoming conduct, remarking that every- 
body knew their father's carriage and if their conduct 
was repeated on their return home they would walk to 
Lancaster, a distance of nine miles. At Columbus, after 
spending a day or two sight-seeing they ordered out 
their horse and called for their bill, supposing their 
means would be exhausted. Col. Noble replied: 
" Boys, you are welcome, Mr. Ewing's boys cannot pay 
me anything for entertainment." With one accord they 
declared they would stay another day and ordered their 
horse back to the stable, greatly to the amusement of 
Colonel Noble. 

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76 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

The next day, on their way home, the two boys re- 
peated their offense at Greencastle and Hugh, true to 
his word, put them out of the carriage, drove oft' and 
left them to walk home. 

Mr. Blaine's next visit to Lancaster was made at 
the time he was Speaker of the United States House of 
Representatives. The occasion was a Presidential cam- 
paign and he was received 'by a great concourse of 
people. He was the guest of General Tom Ewing at 
the old Ewing mansion. Mr. Blaine was then a new 
man in Ohio politics and many strangers came to m.eet 
him, among them General Comly of the Ohio State 
Jonrnal. 

Mr. Blaine's great memory has often been referred 
to, and on this occasion, after a quarter of a century 
since his first visit as a boy, he surprised the committee 
by his questions and remarks. Just as we left the depot 
he said, pointing to an old building, "There was old Mr. 
Lilly's marble shop ; down there was the swimming 
hole ; Dan Sifford used to be the postmaster ; are Reber 
and Kutz still in business?" When surprise was ex- 
pressed at his remarks he replied : "Oh, I remember 
every ash pile in town." 

His third visit here was made during the campaign 
of Foster and lom Ewing for Governor. He made a 
speech or two in the State, but positively refused to say 
a word in his relative's own town and among his neigh- 
bors. 

His fourth and last visit here was made during his 
■candidacy for the Presidency. He was the guest ot 
Judge P. B. Ewing, whose wife was his cousin. All 
will remember the great reception accorded to him and 
his brilliant speech. On this occasion he was accom- 



Of Fairiield County, Ohio. 77 

panied by his favorite son, Walker. Mr. Blaine had 
a warm side for Lancaster and he never forgot the 
acquaintances formed on his visits here. 

The writer had occasion to visit Washington City 
during his last term as Speaker and called upon him 
at his room in the capitol. His recognition was instant, 
his greeting hearty and cordial. After inquiring about 
Lancaster friends, he said : " You see I am busy with 
calling members. You must excuse me. Go to the 
door-keeper in the rear of the speaker's desk and tell 
him that I sent you and to give you a seat on the floor 
of the House." I was given a vacant seat behind Gen- 
eral Sherwood, who, turning round, recognized me and 
said: "How did you get in here? I cannot get a 
friend in." 

This was a great compliment bestowed by a great 
and kind-hearted man who remembered Lancaster and 
the kind attentions he had received there. 

It has often been stated that Mr. Blaine, on his hrst 
visit here, attended Williams's Greenfield Academy one 
term. But that is a mistake, as Mr. Blaine so stated 
on the occasion of his third visit here. 

The Blaine connection, through the Gillespie family, 
was very large at one time in Lancaster. General 
Beecher, Judge Irvin and Hugh Boyle married sisters, 
John Gillespie, a brother, married Miss Myers, of Lan- 
caster, afterwards Mrs. Wm. Phelan. The father of 
the late Henry Miller, of Columbus, married a cousin 
of the three sisters named. The father of T. Ewing 
Miller, of Columbus, also married a cousin of the three, 
and of John Gillespie. 

Senator Ewing's wife was a daughter of Hugh 
Boyle. The wives of Attorney General Henry Stan- 
bery and Judge Van Trump were daughters of General 



78 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

Beecher. Colonel Wm. Trvin, who served in the Mexi- 
can war, and who afterwards died in Texas, was the 
only son of Judge Irvin. Mrs. P. B. Ewing was the 
daughter of John Gillespie. 

Many descendants of these honored pioneers of 
Lancaster are living elsewhere. 



THE LAST SPEECH OF JAMES G. 
BLAINE IN LANCASTER O. 



•WHEN A CANDIDATE FOR THE PRESIDENCY IN 1884. AN 
ELOQUENT SPEECH RECALLING HIS BOYHOOD DAYS 
THERE AND THE BOYS IT HAS SENT FORTH TO FAME 
AND HONOR. 

"J bT the public reception given him on Saturday 

W^ night, October 12, in Lancaster, and in re- 

m/ I sponse to a serenade by the Republican clubs 

of the town, Mr. Blaine delivered the following speech : 

My Friends : — I confess that in this place and at this 
time I hardly feel disposed to make any allusion to public 
affairs. The recollections that rush upon me as I stand here 
carry me back through many years, to a time before most of 
you were born. In 1840 I was a schoolboy in this town, attend- 
ing the school of a Mr. William Lyons, a cultivated English 
gentleman (younger brother of the Lord Lyons and uncle, I 
believe, of the British Minister at Washington), who taught 
with great success the youth of this vicinity. 

I know not whether he be living, but if he is I beg to 
make my acknowedgments to him for his efficiency and excel- 
lence as an instructor. 

As I look upon your faces I am carried back to those days, 
to Lancaster as it then was. In that row of dwellings, on the 
opposite side of the street, in one of which I am now a guest, 
lived at that time the first three lawyers of Ohio, Thomas 
Ewing, Henry Stanbery and Hocking Hunter. I vividly recall 
their persons and their peculiarities. Shortly before that time 
there had come home from West Point a tall and very slender 
young man, straight as an arrow, with a sharp face, and a full 
suit of red hair. His name was Sherman, and he had in his 
pocket an order to join the army in Florida. You have heard 
of him since. [Laughter and cheers.] You have heard of him 
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80 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

and he will be heard of as long as the march through Georgia 
holds its place in history. He will be heard of as long as lofty 
character and military genius are esteemed among men. [Re- 
newed cheering.] 

About the same time, from a country town to the south- 
west of this place, there was sent to West Point a sturdy 
strong-headed youth, who also was heard of in the war, and 
whose fame has since encircled the globe. His name is 
Ulysses S. Grant. [Great cheering.] Right in the adjoining 
county of Perry there lived a short, stout boy, who has since 
become known to the world as Phil Sheridan. [Three cheers 
Sheridan.] Combative, yet gentle in nature, he achieved a 
reputation not unlike that which they obtained in the Napole- 
onic wars. So that Ohio was then preparing military leaders 
for great contingencies and for unforeseen crises. I remember 
another youth of this town, slender, tall, stately, who had just 
left school, and was a civil engineer on the Muskingum River 
improvements. You have since heard of him. His name is 
John Sherman. [Cheers.] At that time this town seemed to 
my boyish vision to be the center of the universe, and my idea 
was that the world was under deep obligations for being per- 
mitted to revolve around Lancaster. [Laughter and cheers.] 

I recall these scenes, I recall my early attachment and 
love for this town, and for the near kindred and the near 
friends that were in it, some of whom were here when Arthur 
St. Clair was Governor of the Northwest Territory, and some 
of whom are here still ; and when I think of those days, and of 
the deep attachments I inherited and have since maintained, I 
feel more like dwelling upon old stories and old scenes than 
talking about political contests. [Hurrah for Blaine.] But 
after all these things are gone by for more than forty years, 
and a new generation meets, in a new era and under new re- 
sponsibilities, we meet upon the eve of an important election, 
and the people of Ohio, as is their wont, and has been their 
fortune, are placed in the vanguard of the fight. I am satisfied 
that on Tuesday next you will show, as you have shown in 
preceding presidential elections, that Ohio is fit to be entrusted 
with the responsibility of leadership in great national contests. 
[Great cheering.] I do not stop to argue any question; the 
time for argument has passed. 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 81 

I do not stop even to appeal to you ; appeal has been made. 
I stop only to remind you that if you do your duty oa Tuesday 
next as becomes men of your lineage and your inheritance, the 
Republican administration of this Government will be con- 
tinued; [Cheers] the protective tariff will be upheld; [Great 
cheering] the patriotism and the fruits of the civil struggle 
will be maintained, and the Government of the Union, pre- 
served by the loyalty of the Union, will continue to be admin- 
istered in loyalty to the Union. Good night. [Prolonged 
cheering.] 

Mr. Blaine spent a quiet Sunday as the guest of 
his cousin, Honorable P. B- Ewing. In the forenoon 
he attended Presbyterian service ; and the afternoon he 
devoted to visiting, in company with Judge Ewing, 
old relatives and friends, of whom he has a large 
number in this vicinitv. 



TO CALIFORNIA. 



THE FIRST OVERLAND EXPEDITION TO LEAVE LANCASTER, 
FIFTY YEARS AGO. 

TN the spring of 1852, Thomas Sturgeon and Samuel 
Crim, being then partners in the buying and sell- 
ing of horses, purchased 100 horses for the Cal- 
ifornia trade. 

They took with them 16 wagons and expected to fit 
out mule teams for each one at St. Joseph, Mo. The 
trip to Cincinnati was over the pike via Circleville. At 
Cincinnati the horses and equipment were shipped by 
steamer to St. Louis and St. Joseph, Mo. They em- 
ployed forty of the best young men in the county to go 
witli them and take charge of the horses and teams. 

At St. Joseph they entered the savage Indian coun- 
try and passed through what is now the fertile plains 
of Kansas and Nebraska, and after many months 
reached San Francisco, without the loss of a man and 
very little stock. 

We give herewith the names of the men who were 
members of the Crim & Sturgeon expedition. Forty- 
eight winters have come and gone since 1852, and but 
few of the number remain. Horatio Westlake resides 
in Columbus, Ohio. 

Horatio Westlake, Thomas A. Black, Albert Brown, 
Joshua Stukey, Richard Miller, Sim Street, David 
Brown, Lancaster. 

Robert McFarland, O. P. Courtright, Greenfield. 

Ed. Wilson, W. B. Wilson, W. H. Ijams, Richland. 
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Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 83 

Samuel Thompson, William Thompson, Rushcreek. 

William Kuqua, David Ginger, A. R. Ginger, Berne. 

Solomon Ghaster, William Paul, Samuel Smetters, 
D. B. Miller, Lrberty. 

George Watson, William Watson, Peter L. Geiger, 
David Weaver, Thomas Lamb, D. D. Wickliffe, Adam 
.Shane, Sol Brenneman, Walnut. 

Dan Walters, E. M. Walters, Pleasant. 

P. S. Julian, Madison. 

William Mallon, Wm. Jacobs, L. P. Foust, John 
Boyer, H. C. Mehorter, H. H. Hamlin, James Dallas, 
D. Alexander, Tarlton. 

About the same time John D. Jackson, John Cannon 
and Jonathan Rising left Lancaster for the coast via 
Panama. Rising died on the steamer. He was a 
brother of Philip Rising. But few of the Fairfield peo- 
ple who went to California — and there were hundreds 
— ever returned. 



FAMOUS AND WELL KNOWN MEN 

OF LANCASTER WHO HAVE PASSED AWAY TO THE 
UNKNOWN LAND SINCE 1855. 

TT is well occasionally to call to mind the names of 
the departed. It brings to mind pleasant mem- 
ories, reminiscences of old times, and prepares us 
better to bear the burdens of life and perform the duties 
of good citizens. We propose to name the prominent 
men in the various walks of life, who in the great drama 
of their existence, contributed their full share in mak- 
ing Lancaster famous, men, a majority of whom are 
worthy to be remembered for their good deeds, good 
lives and splendid characters and talent : 

Thomas Ewing, H. H. Hunter, H. C. Whitman, 
P. Van Trump, P. B. Ewing, Judge Wright, Dr. James 
White, Dr. T. Edwards, Dr. P. Carpenter, Dr. H. 
Scott, Dr. M. Efifinger, Dr. O. E. Davis, General Sher- 
man, General J. Stafford, Colonel J. M. Connell, Cap- 
tain Emanuel Giesy, Colonel H. B. Hunter, Captain 
Stinchcomb, General W. J. Reese, General Sanderson, 
Captain A. F. Witte, M. B. Gregory, George G. Beck, 
Henry Miers, Jacob F. Beck, David Rokohl, Henry 
Little, Augustus Mithoff, C. F. Garaghty, J. R. 
Mumaugh, Theodore Mithoff, John Reber, Jacob 
Ulrick, J. C. Maccracken. John G. Willock, Alvord 
Stutson, Samuel Herr, S. McCabe, W. C. Embich, F. 
A. Shaeffer, N. Young, Isaiah Vorys, Dr. E. B. Olds, 
James Weaver, Dr. J. W. Lewis, Henry F. Blaire, 
Joseph C. Kinkead, Christian Flem, William Geiser, 

(84) 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 85 

Martin Beck, Henry Cless, Mahlon Smalley, J. Wagen- 
lials, Samuel Beery, Daniel Sifford, Rev. A. Reck, 
John Gibbs, T. G. Dodson, Charles Hood, W. Binin- 
ger, Eran Julian, Allen House, John C. Cassell, Peter 
Titler, J. L. Tuthill, Silas Hedges, Thomas B. Cox, 
T. U. White, Tunis Cox, George H. Smith, sr., John 
B. Reed, Henry Bell, Jacob Guseman, G. L. Eckert, 
Judge Leonard, Jacob Cly, Robert Gates, Daniel Devor, 
Jacob Shoff, Judge Perry, Alvah Perry, Henry Arnold, 
Samuel Carpenter, J. M. Pratt, William Upfield, Isaac 
Church, Charles Borland, John Searles, W. Boden- 
heimer, Charles Shaug, Joseph R. Parker, James Miers, 
Edwin Wright, William Brumfield, John Matlack, 
James ATiller, William Fismer, F. A. Steck, Henry 
Brink, Joel Smith, Colonel Charles Sager, Captain 
Stewart, A. L. Clark, John A. Jones. Reuben Banks, 
Joseph Green. G. W. Pratt, John H. Wright, S. A. 
Griswold, Rev. C. Spielman, John U. Giesy, Dr. 
INIiller. Conrad Winter, John Shaeffer, E. Becker, 
Charles F. Rainey, Gilbert Devol, William Pursell, 
John Van Pearse, Salem Wolfe, Joseph Work, sr., 
James Work, Thomas Whiley, Thomas Wetzler, C. 
Bauman, Otto Kraemer, George Carter, Reverend Wil- 
liard, John H. Wright, Henry Stanbery, John D. 
Martin, Governor William Medill, M. A. Daugherty, 
John T. Brasee, Dr. G. W. Boerstler, Dr. M. Z. 
Kreider, Dr. Wagenhals, Dr. Bigelow, Dr. Crider. Dr. 
J. D. Nourse, Governor Brough, General Tom Ewing, 
General N. Schleich, ]\Iajor H. H. Giesy, Colonel A. 
W. Eljright, Captain E. Rickets, General Maccracken, 
General Charles Ewing, Captain J. Henley, George 
Kauffman, E. L. Slocum, Joseph Reinmund, Lippen 
Lobenthall, John C. Fall, Philip H. Kraner, Charles 
Dresbach, John C. Weaver, John Garaghty, Darius 



86 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

Talmadge, Henry V. Weakly. Daniel Kiitz, John Mac- 
cracken, John H. Tenant, William P. Creed, F. J. Bov- 
ing, Christopher Rudolph, Jacob Embich, John Lyons, 
J. N. Little, James McManamy, G. W. Claspill, Philip 
Bope, John C. Flood, Joshua Clarke, William Kinkead, 
Samuel Doty, Ferdinand Getz, Henry Springer, John 
Baughman, Robert Fielding, G. Steinman, Perry Stein- 
man, G. J. Wygum, Simeon Denton, Gerhard Miller, 
David Foster. M. O'Gara, George Hood, P. W. Bin- 
ninger, Samuel Crim, George Crawford. William Cas- 
sell. Colonel A. McVeigh, John Stallsmith. Jacob Holt, 
William Latta. Thos. U. White, John McClelland, 
Theo. Tong, Thos. Reed. Adam Guseman, V. M. 
Griswold, V. E. Shaw, Joel Radebaugh, Jas. Gates, 
Walter McDonald, John Shrieves, Chas. Schneider, O. 
H. Perry, Benj. Connell, B. F. Reinmund, Amos Hun- 
ter, Jno. Williams, Josiah Wright, Thomas Shannon, 
John Borland, ]\L Thimmes, John Pearse, Wm. Vorys, 
Wm. Richards. Sam'l Rudolph, Wash. Homan. Chris. 
Lehman, Chas. ^liller. Andrew Hunter, W. G. Blaire, 
Chas. Beaumaster, Jno. Gebelein. Benj. Smith, Geo. W. 
Martin, W. L. Jeffries, Nelson Smith, Rev. C. Peters, 
Elijah Lewis, G. Williams, C. Stropel, Col. Jno. Noble, 
Geo. H. Smitli. Jr., John Gromme, Stephen Smith. 
Jno. B. :McNeill, J. G. Doddridge, Jacob Plout, John C. 
Raincy, John C. Smith, John Arney, George Ring, 
James Rice, John Work, Joseph Work, Jr., Samuel 
\\ hilcy, Robert Reed. Jacob Wetzel. David Cowden, 
George Smith, Abe Berry. Robert \\'ork, Edwin 
Wright. 

These names wcro written from memory and 
doubtless some worthy men have licen overlooked. 

For a more elaborate history of Lancaster, for one 
hundred vcars, the reader is referred to "Centennial 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 87 

Lancaster." The book can be found in the State Li- 
brary and in the public Hbraries of Columbus, Cincin- 
nati and Lancaster. 

We depart from our plan so far as to sketch the 
career of Lancaster's most distinguished native sons, 
John Sherman and Gen. W. T. Sherman. 

HON. JOHN SHERMAN 

Lancaster has the distinction of having been the 
birth place of the most distinguished brothers known 
to the annals of the United States of America. Wil- 
liam T. Sherman, one of the great military men of 
the age, and John Sherman, one of the distinguished 
statesmen of the world. Sons of the great lawyer 
and jurist of Lancaster, Charles Robert Sherman. 

John Sherman was born May lo, 1823, in the 
frame house still standing on Alain Street, Lancaster, 
just west of the residence of Philip Rising. 

His father died in 1829, at Lebanon, Ohio, where 
he was holding court, of cholera, leaving a widow and 
II orphan children. John was then six years of age. In 
1831, when eight years of age he was taken to Mount 
Vernon, Ohio, by a cousin of his father, named 
John Sherman, to make his home in his familv. Here 
he remained four Acars attending a school kept by 
Matthew Mitchell and made some progress in his 
studies. At the age of 12 vears the growing family 
of his cousin, made it necessar\- for him to return to 
his mother in Lancaster. 

He then entered the academy of Mark and Samuel 
L. Howe, which stood where C. F. Kirn's dwelling 
now stands on ^Mulberry street. He continued in this 
excellent school two years and became proficient in 
mathematics. In 1837, at the age of 14, his friends 



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secured for him the position of rodman with Col. 
Samuel B. Curtis, in charge of the Muskingum river 
improvement. He remained with Col. Curtis two 
years, giving good satisfaction and spending his leis- 
ure hours in study. In the year 1839, on account of a 
change in the State Administration Col. Curtis was 
removed and young Sherman returned to Lancaster. 
At this time he was 16 years of age. On his return 
home Dr. M. Z. Kreider, clerk of the court, gave him 
temporary employment in his office at $1.50 per day. 

In the spring of 1840 he went to Mansfield and en- 
tered the law office of his brother, Charles Taylor 
Sherman, as a law student. 

As a law student he had the advice and encourage- 
ment of his uncle. Judge Parker, a learned lawyer, 
and a man of good common sense. May 10, 1844, 
on his twenty-first birthday, he was admitted to the 
bar at Springfield, Ohio. 

He became a partner of his brother, and entered 
at once upon his wonderful career. He soon took an 
active interest in politics, and for so young a man, 
became a very prominent Whig politician. He was a 
delegate to the National convention at Philadelphia, 
that nominated General Zachary Taylor for the presi- 
dency. He was a delegate to the Whig convention 
held at Columbus, where he made a reputation in a 
brief speech. He had been urged to become a can- 
didate for Attorney General, but declined to 
enter the race against Henry Stanbery. 

In the same year, 1852, he was a delegate to the 
Whig National convention held at Baltimore, when 
General Winfield Scott was nominated for the presi- 
dency. He was a stump speaker and took part in all 
these campaigns — grew in popularity and became 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 89 

ripe in experience and his name soon became noised 
about in connection with Congressional honors. In 
1854 he was nominated and elected to Congress from 
the Mansfield district. December, 1855, he was sworn 
in and entered upon a public career without prece- 
dent in this country. As Congressman, Senator and 
Cabinet officer he served his country forty-three years. 

Elected to Congress as a Whig, he soon became a 
Republican and followed the fortunes of that party 
throughout his long career, and no man, in public 
life more fully represented the traditions and princi- 
ples of the Republican party, than did John Sherman. 

He entered Congress at a time of great excite- 
ment and peril to his country. The Missouri Com- 
promise, the Nebraska trouble and national finances 
were questions that called for real, patriotic states- 
manship. 

Sherman met and discussed these questions in a 
calm, dispassionate and conservative manner, dis- 
playing great ability, and rose rapidly in public esti- 
mation. He was appointed one of the committee to 
investigate the Kansas trouble and more than met 
the expectation of his friends. He was not an aboli- 
tionist, but was opposed to slavery extension, and as 
contrasted with the abolition members of the Republi- 
can party, he was very conservative. 

In 1859 he was a candidate for speaker of the 
House, but was defeated by Mr. Pennington, of New 
Jersey. 

March 4, 1861, he was sworn in a Senator of the 
United States. After the close of a brief extra session 
he came to Ohio and was authorized by Governor 
Dennison to raise a brigade. 



90 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

He raised two regiments of infantry, one of cav- 
alry and a battery of artillery ; this he did in a great 
measure at his own expense. His services were 
deemed of more importance in the Senate, and this 
brigade was turned over to other officers, but was 
ever after known as the Sherman brigade. Only last 
summer the Senator attended a reunion of his old 
brigade. 

He returned to the Senate and found a great ques- 
tion confronting the country. How to raise money 
and carry on the war and sustain the public credit. 
The question was partly solved by the issue of green- 
backs with the legal tender feature. Sherman was 
the champion of this measure, carried his party with 
him and the bill was passed. 

The result has shown that no more valuable ser- 
vice was ever rendered by any public man. When 
the time came for the resumption of specie payments 
Sherman was the great and everywhere acknowledged 
champion of the bill — the best speeches of his life 
were made for the measure, and he had the supreme 
satisfaction of witnessing its passage January i, 1879. 

As Secretary of the Treasury under Hayes, it was 
his duty to redeem the greenbacks when presented. 
But as he had predicted when date for redemption 
grew nigh greenbacks were worth their face in gold, 
and not one dollar was presented. In 1880, 1884 and 
1888, John Sherman's name was before the National 
convention as a candidate for the presidency. For 
fifty or more years our greatest statesmen have not 
reached the presidency, Abraham Lincoln being an 
exception. 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 91 

The friends of Senator Sherman beHeve that he 
made a mistake in leaving the senate to become Sec- 
retary of State. 

John Sherman's pubHc career places him in the 
front rank of statesmen, and his name upon the im- 
perishable roll of fame. He did not become presi- 
dent, but his name will be honorably mentioned in 
history long after many who have held that exalted 
office are forgotten. The life of Senator Sherman has 
been a model one in all respects, pure and without 
reproach. The temptations and excesses incident to 
public life had no charms for him. In the quiet home 
with his family and books he spent his leisure hours. 
He has respect for religion and is an Episcopalian in 
faith. 

He was devoted to his mother, both in youth and 
manhood, even down to old age. For we find this 
passage in his Autobiography written when near 70 
years of age. 

" Of my mother I can scarcely write without emo- 
tion, though she died more than forty years ago." 
We need not search farther for the influence that 
shaped and formed his character. The above passage 
makes it clear. 

The name and fame of the Shermans reflects un- 
fading lustre upon their native city. 

GEN. W. T. SHERMAN 

The day of the funeral of Gen. W. T. Sherman, 
the citizens of Lancaster held memorial services. C. 
]\I. L. Wiseman, of the speakers, delivered the follow- 
ing brief address : 

Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen: I will read a 
passage from Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress : 



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"After this it was noised about that Mr. Valiant-for- 
truth was taken with a summons. When he understood it he 
called his friends and told them of it. Then, said he, "I am 
going to my father's ; and though with great difficulty I got 
thither, yet now I do not repent me of all the trouble I 
have been at (to arrive where I am. My sword I give to him 
that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and 
skill to him that can get them. My marks and scars I carry 
with me, to be a witness for me that I have fought His 
battles who will now be a rewarder." When the day that he 
must go hence was come, many accompanied him to the river 
side, into which, as he went, he said ; "Death, where is thy 
sting?" and as he went down deeper he said, "Grave, where 
is thy victory?" So he passed over, and all the trumpets 
sounded for him on the other side. 

Sherman has gone to join the grand army on the other 
shore. We believe that it is well with him, as it is with 
all men who live for humanity or give their lives td their 
country. 

It was the good fortune of many in this audience to 
personally know General Sherman, which is to them a 
never failing source of pleasure. 

I have met him often in Lancaster and elsewhere and at 
his headquarters in Washington. I always found him an 
affable and pleasant gentleman and especially was he kind 
in Washington. 

He had the reputation of being a blunt, gruff man, 
but that grew mainly from the fact that he disliked an ovation 
and personal attention. He avoided displays wherever he 
could well do so and sometimes offended : But he was the 
most beloved of all our generals in spite of himself. We 
remember well when he returned to Lancaster from St. 
Louis on his way to Washington to tender his services 
to President Lincoln, and how disappointed he was on his 
return. The story of that mterview is graphically told in his 
memoirs. We also remember well when he returned to 
his family from Missouri after he had been relieved of his 
command at Louisville, Kentucky. And how dejected and 
sad he was, suffering under a cloud of misapprehension and 
the stormy attacks of the daily press. 

But his day of triumph came, when, at the head of his 



Of Fair-field County, Ohio. 93 

victorious legions, he marched down Pennsylvania avenue, 
amidst the plaudits of assembled thousands, the observed of 
all observers and the acknowledged second, if not the first, 
great hero of the war. 

In the early history of the war the one baneful thing 
was the jealousies of each other of the different commanders 
and the one great obstacle to success. 

But history will forever record the love and confidence 
of Grant and Sherman for and in each other. They were 
not jealous of each other, nor were they jealous of or 
wanting in confidence in their subordinate officers. This 
will be appreciated the more if we recall a bit of history — 
the jealousies and intrigues of the Roman generals destroyed 
the greatest empire of the world. 

The confidence in and faithfulness to each other, of 
Grant and his generals saved our country. General Sherman, 
though a grim warrior and fierce fighter — always giving his 
enemy a full taste of the horrors of war — was at heart a 
tender man. Those who have read his articles in the North 
American Review will remember one of which the southern 
negro is the subject, as tender and pathetic as anything ever 
written. His pathetic reference to the negro servant. Old 
Shady, can not be surpassed. 

In honoring Sherman to-day we honor a great citizen 
as well as a great soldier. I envy those among us who have 
the honor and the distinction of having served under his 
command. To have been with General Sherman on his march 
to the sea "is a life long honor increasing with the weight of 
years." Brave men have been the theme of song and story 
in all lands and in all ages. Long ago the Grecian bard 
Homer, sang: 

'The brave live glorious or lamented die, 
The wretch who trembles on the field of fame 
Meets death and worse than death, eternal shame. 

It has been but a little while since Sherman at the head 
of 60.000 Grand Army veterans, with tattered banners and 
inspiring music marched down the streets of Columbus — a 
grand and imposing spectacle. He will march with them no 
more. He is with the Grand Army over the river and they 
rest 



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"On Fame's eternal camping ground 
Their silent tents are spread, 

Whilst glory guards with solemn round 
The bivouac of the dead." 
Soon the rear guard will follow him, one by one, one by 
one, till all are gone — they will pass over "and all the trumpets 
will sound for them on the other side." Lancaster will long 
mourn the great soldier whose heroic life and great achieve- 
ments have placed him in the front rank of the many distin- 
guished citizens whose lives have shed lustre upon our history 
and added to her renown as the home of great men. Born 
here, brought up in our midst, married here; his name is 
indissolubly linked with that of Lancaster and his memory 
will always remain embalmed in the hearts of her citizens. 
Our hero is dead— but his fame survives, unsullied, untarn- 
ished, bounded only by the limits of human civilization.^ 

BY JOHN B. m'nEILL. 

It is certainly fit and appropriate that the good people of 
old Lancaster should on this occasion moisten with their 
tears the garlands that are being placed upon the grave of 
General Sherman. 

Here he was born ; Here he struggled when an orphaned 
boy; and from here he was called to West Point, to become a 
ward of the Nation. He honored his god-parent — hence his 
days were long in the land, and "In the world's broad field 
of battle" he became "A hero in the strife." 

Words cannot fully express the emotions of the heart, 
and language is too poor indeed to embellish the wreaths on 
Sherman's grave ; but the eloquence of the tear of woe is 
abroad in the land ; the Nation is in gloom and sorrow ; the 
old soldiers are all in mourning, and the American citizen 
is standing with uncovered head, because our old Lancaster 
boy has gone to sleep — to sleep the sleep that knows no 
waking, along with Grant and Sheridan and Thomas, and 
the mighty host of comrades, who are mouldering in the 
silent grave. But 

When spring, with dewy fingers cold. 
Returns to deck their hallowed mould. 
She there shall find a brighter sod. 
Than fancy's feet have ever trod. 



Of FairMd County, Ohio. 95 

JACOB BECK 

One of the pioneers of Fairfield County, and for years 
one of our best known and most useful citizens, cele- 
brated his 90th birthday June 25, 1894. To the as- 
sembled company he read, without the use of glasses, 
the following brief sketch. He was a citizen of Hock- 
ing township for 60 years : 

Kind Friends and Neighbors : — We have met here this 
day, the 2oth of June, for the purpose of commemorating my 
ninetieth birthday. I was born on the 25th of June, 1804, in 
the village of Rhotenflue, in the canton of Basle, Switzerland, 
nine miles, or in the Swiss dialect, dreistund, from the city 
of Basle. In the year 1806 father, with his little family, con- 
sisting of his wife and one child, emigrated to America. They 
left their home on the sixth day of May and went to the city 
of Basle, and took passage in a boat on the River Rhine, and 
arrived at the city of Amsterdam, in Holland, on the 17th day 
of the same month, and at once set sail for the new world. 
They arrived at the city of Philadelphia, Pa., on the 10th day 
of August — having been a little over twelve weeks on the 
deep. They settled, temporarily, in the State of Pennsylva- 
nia. In the year 1810, in the month of April, they started for 
the West, arriving at Lancaster, Ohio, on the 5th day of 
May, 1810, where father located with his family. I was nearly 
six years old when we arrived at Lancaster, and I was reared 
in this town, and lived in or near to it until the present time. 
I was united in the bonds of holy wedlock to Miss Susan 
Kerns on the 31st of August, 1826. This union was blessed 
with eight children — one of whom died in its infancy ; of the 
remaining seven children, there are two daughters and five 
sons, all of whom survive ; two sons and a daughter are resid- 
ing on the old homestead, and the other daughter is comfort- 
ably located not far distant. There is one son banking in 
Pierce, Nebraska; one is pastor of a congregation in Rich- 
mond, Indiana, while another is practicing medicine in the 
city of Dayton, Ohio. 

Now, dear friends, in my feeble and nervous debility, I 
find myself where I am and as I am — my duty is submission. 



96 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

Because I am unwell or disabled, I need not be unhappy. I 
accept my situation as of divine appointment and I will try to 
be contented in it — I will make the place where my lot is cast 
as bright and cheerful as possible, and wait with patience till 
r am permitted to enter my heavenly home. 

On the same occasion, C. ]\I. L. Wiseman deliv- 
ered the following- tribute to his friend of forty years : 

Venerable Friend : — This numerous company has met 
with you today at your invitation to celebrate the 90th anni- 
versary of your birth. You have been greatly favored by a 
kind Providence. He hath kindly lengthened out your days 
far beyond the ordinary time allotted for the life of man. 
He has preserved your mental and physical faculties, so that 
you are enabled to join with us in the celebration of this 
unusual event, an anniversary measured by four score and 
ten years. 

Your life has been a long, honorable and useful one, 
illustrating the virtues that adorn and ennoble human nature. 

When Daniel Webster welcomed Lafayette to this 
country in 1825, he said : "Illustrious citizen, you have come 
down to us from a former generation." 

This is literally true of you, my friend. Long before 
a majority of this assembly were born you were an active 
business man of Lancaster, and all with whom you were 
then associated have passed away, with the exception of one 
honorable and highly respected citizen, whom all regret 
cannot be with us today, Henry Orman, two days the senior 
of Jacob Beck and for 7U years friends and brothers. 

It was the good fortune of Mr. Beck to personally know 
the great men who made Lancaster and the State of Ohio 
famous, and to enjoy their warm personal friendship. I 
will name a few of the most noted men referred to. Gen'l 
Beecher, Judge Sherman, Senator Ewing, Judge Hunter, Hon. 
Henry Stanbery, Hon. John T. Brasee, Gen'l Sam'l F. 
McCracken, John Creed, Gen'l Sanderson, Dr. McNeil, Gov. 
Medill, and Gen'l W. T. Sherman and John Sherman, both 
as boys and men. 



Of Fairiield County, Ohio. 97 

Mr. Beck cherishes a high regard for his old friends 
of long ago and often refers with pride to his long associa- 
tion with them. 

Your lot, Mr. Beck, was cast in a favored land and 
you have lived your ninety years in the most interesting period 
of the world's history. 

Great events have transpired both in the political and 
moral world and everythmg pertaining to science and art 
has seemingly reached perfection ; and there would seem to 
be nothing left to be discovered. 

American generals have marshalled the greatest armies 
known to history. The greatest rebellion of any age was sup- 
pressed and human slavery, the greatest blot upon human 
civilization, abolished; with tnis great event the name of 
Abraham Lincoln will be forever associated, and his one of the 
names that will go down m history. — When Mr. Beck was a 
mere boy. this Western Empire was an infant and three- 
fourths of its present territory a howling wilderness. 

We now number nearly 50 states and a population in 
round numbers of 70,000,000. In Mr. Beck's early days all 
public business was Lransacted by horse back. Trips to New 
York and New England were often made in that way. Now 
you can visit every town of any importance in the whole 
country in a railway car. 

When the parents of Mr. Beck came from fatherland 
it required three months to make the trip. Now it can be 
made in from G to 10 days. 

Science has chained the lightning, electric wires encircle 
the globe and a message of love or mercy may literally "take 
the wings of the morning and fly to the uttermost parts 
of Earth." 

These vast changes have taken place in the lifetime of 
our venerable friend. Who does not envy him the recollec- 
tions of his long and eventful life. 

We read in the scriptures : "See'st thou a man diligent 
in his business, he shall stand before kings and not before 
mean men." No man ever lived who was more diligent in 
business than Mr. Beck. Industrious, punctual and scrupu- 
lously exact in all things. 



98 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

He has always prided himself upon his industry and 
that he complied with that other passage of scripture: "In 
the sweat of thy brow shalt thou eat bread." 

He was not ashamed of any honest calling and when a 
young man he was a good blacksmith, and there in the black- 
smith shop he learned the lesson of his life long before the 
poet Longfellow so beautifully expressed it: 

"Thus at the flaming forge of life 
Our fortunes must be wrought." 

He was a good county treasurer, a good farmer and a 
good administrator of estates. For twenty-five years of his 
life he was the popular administrator of estates in this 
county. In this work he displayed great capacity and highly 
commended himself to his able attorney, H. H. Hunter. The 
work of an administrator of that day was much more diffi- 
cult than at present. Then there were no books of form 
and instruction. Swan's manual had not then been heard of. 

During this work of Mr. Beck, Henry Stanbery con- 
ceived the idea of writing out and publishing forms for an 
administrator. He did the writing and submitted his work 
to Mr. Hunter for his approval. Mr. Hunter promptly told 
him that his friend Jacob" Beck was the author of a better 
form, which Mr. Stanbery after examination admitted and 
threw his own work into the fire. 

Jacob Beck with his saddle bags upon his arm, filled with 
important papers was once a very familiar figure on the 
streets of Lancaster. 

You have been a life long and consistent member of 
the Lutheran church. You have occupied positions of trust 
and honor under its administration, the most important being 
that of trustee of the university at Columbus, Ohio. 

You have enjoyed the friendship and confidence of the 
Beading clergymen of that denomination for seventy years; 
and of those living who knew you in early manhood I can 
name only Rev. Joseph Roof and Rev. Chas. Spielman, both 
valued friends and colaborers. Both distinguished clergy- 
men of their denomination and known and loved far beyond 
denominational lines. Rev. Jos. Roof was once called as a 
witness in the Common Pleas Court at Circleville. The oppos- 
ing counsel arose and requested the court to permit Mr. 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 99 

Roof to testify without the usual formality of an oath, as 
liis word was sufficient. Such were the men who favored 
Mr. Beck with their confidence and friendship. 

We honor you to-day as a faithful member of your own 
church organization ; we honor you in a larger sense, not as 
-a Lutheran, but as a broad-minded Christian gentleman. Your 
whole life has been as "an open book to be read of all 
men." Your life and character has impressed itself upon 
this community and time and eternity alone will unfold the 
force and effect of your example. But few men have been 
so favored ; but few communities have been so fortunate. 

Perhaps the most gratifying feature to Mr. Beck, of his 
long life, is that he has raised a large family of interesting 
children. All followed his good example and became good 
men and women and good citizens. 

And the greatest blessing the Almighty has vouchsafed 
to him is that they all live and are here to-day to shower 
blessings upon his venerable head and to thank God that 
lie still lives. Another scripture has been fulfilled. "His 
children shall rise up and call him blessed." 

An English poet beautifully says : 

"Sure the last end of the good man is peace. 

How calm his exit, night dews fall not more gently to the 

earth. 
Nor weary, worn out winds expire so soft. 
Behold him in the eventide of life, 
A life well spent, whose early care it was 
His riper years should not upbraid his green 
By unperceived degrees he wears away. 
Yet. like the sun, seems larger at his setting." 



BRIEF TOWNSHIP SKETCHES. 

J' 

BERNE 

BERNE township was first settled by the Car- 
penters, Emanuel, Samuel and John. They 
were soon followed by the Shallenbergers and 
Abraham Ream and his sons. The Carpenters, vShall- 
enbergers and Reams built the first mills and were 
prominent and useful citizens. 

Joseph Stukey and two brothers were early set- 
tlers and reared large families. Stukey built a good 
mill at the mouth of Rush creek. Joseph Stukey was a 
prominent man and an associate judge for this county 
for one or two terms. He was appointed by the Court 
of Common Pleas one of the receivers of the Lancas- 
ter bank, when it was wound up in 1842. Levi 
jMoore and Asa Spurgeon were among the first to set- 
tle below Lancaster. 

One of the very first settlers in Berne township 
was Gen. Jonathan Lynch, as early as 1798 or 1799. 
He lived on what is now the Baldwin farm. He oper- 
ated a small tan-yard, the first in the county. Here a 
son was born, December, 1799; one of the first, at least 
the second, to be born in the county. Gen. Lynch was 
a very prominent man. He commanded a brigade in 
the war of 1812. He spent his small fortune in caring 
for his men, and his children state that he was never 

reimbursed. 

PLEASANT 

The early settlers of this township were Edward 
Teal, Nimrod Bright, Frederick Arnold, Aaron 
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Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 101 

Ashbrook, William Trimble, Thomas, Matthew and 
David Ewing, and James Duncan. Trimble and Ewing 
were prominent men and represented this county in the 
legislature. Fredk. Harmon, John Miller and Dewalt 
Macklin came in 1800. 

MADISON 

The early settlers of this township were Martin 
Landis, Sr., Samuel Spangler, Adam Defenbaugh and 
Matthew and Robert Young, and the Shaffers, a large 
family. 

RICHLAND 

The early settlers of this township were John I\Iur- 
phey, Emanuel Ruft"ner, Daniel Stevenson, Thomas 
William and Isaac I jams. The three brothers rear- 
ed eight sons who became prominent township men, 
the most distinguished of whom was Joseph I jams, 
a great merchant in his time. William Wilson and his 
sons, William, Thomas, Joseph, Isaac and David. 
The daughters, also Mrs. James Richie, and Mrs. 
Col. Wm. Sumner and Mrs. Herron were prominent 
people ; bold and fearless pioneers. William Coulson 
was not an early settler, but he was the most able and 
Jistinguished man of Rushvlle, or of Richland town- 
ship ; a great pioneer merchant. He lived beyond 90 
)'ears. 

RUSH CREEK 

The first settlers in this township were the Youngs 
(in 1799), Andrew. Ashbaugh, Fredk. Ashbaugh, John 
Ashbaugh, Sr., John Ashbaugh, Jr., Joseph Miller and 
their wives. 

The McClungs and Larimers came later. William 
McClung served in the war of i8i2,was member of the 



102 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

Ohio legislature and an associate judge of the Com- 
mon Pleas Court. 

In this township the first Presbyterian house of 
worship was built, of which an account is given in the 
sketch of the Rowles family. 

The Ashbaugh family arrived at the Carpenter set- 
tlement on Hock-Hocking the evening of December 31, 
1799, and on the morning of January i, 1800 their 
son, David, was born in one of the Carpenter cabins. 



The early settlers of Violet township were H. 
Donaldson, A. Donaldson, Ed. Rickets, W. Hustand, 
Dr. Tolbert, Abraham Pickering and M. Fishpaugh. 

GREENFIELD 

Greenfield township was settled in 1798 and 1799. 
Isaac Meason was one of the very early settlers. 
Walter McFarland and his father came about the 
same time. Joseph Stuart, Ralph Cherry, Jeremiah 
Cherry, Joshua Meeks and Samuel Randall were here 
before Meason. Gen. James Wells, a distinguished 
man, of a very distinguished family, came here about 
tne year 1801 and settled where Hooker station is 
located. 

Henry Abrams, father-in-law of Gen. Sanderson, 
was an early settler, as was Loveland and Smith, whO' 
built the first mill in the county. 

Jacob Clay pool came in 1808, but did not bring his 
family until 181 1. He became one of the distinguished 
men of the county ; farmer, drover, banker, legislator 
and an all round good business man. This township 
was the seat of the famous Greenfield Academy, where 
so many young men were educated by that famous- 
scholar and teacher, Dr. John Williams. 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 103 

AN HISTORIC OHIO MILL 
ROCK MILL, AT HOOKERS, OHIO 

Among the other Ohio flouring mills, few are 
to be found in a better state of preservation than the 
Rock Mills, shown in the engraving. It is located at 
the upper falls of the Hocking river, near the village 
of Hookers, Fairfield County, about seven miles from 
Lancaster. It occupies (nearly) the site of the first 
mill erected (1799) on Hocking river, built by Love- 
land & Smith. They located directly below the falls, 
the grists being taken into the mill at the gable by ropes 
from the top of the clifif. 

The present building was erected in 1824. It has 
the heavy frame timbers of that period and is four 
stories high. It was built by a man named Barrett, as 
a combined grist and woolen mill, but the woolen ma- 
chinery was never put mto the building. The premises 
have since been owned successively by Abraham Book- 
waiter, Christian Morehart, Joseph Knabenshue (father 
of Samuel Knabenshue, editor of the Toledo Blade), 
Philip Homrighous and John Foor, who in the spring 
of 1899 became a member of the firm of Solt, Alspach 
Bros. & Foor. They completely remodeled the mill, 
putting in Nordyke & Marmon Company's machinery 
and the Swing Sifter System. It has since been run- 
ning successfully, doing a comfortable business. The 
firm is now styled Solt & Alspach. C. Mingus is the 
head miller. 

Tlie waterfall shown in the engraving is located 
immediately to the right of the penstock. Below the 
falls for half a mile or so, the river is confined within 
a narrow gorge some 50 to 60 feet deep, which is 
shaded bv a heavy growth of timber. It is a favorite 



104 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

resort for searchers for the picturesque in that part of 
Ohio. The wide gorge resembles the body of a bottle 
and the narrow stem above the falls, the neck, hence the 
name "bottle-river" or Hock-Hocking. Grogan, one 
of the first white men to visit this valley ( 1751 ) records 
this name. — American Miller. 

CLEAR CREEK 

The Shoemakers, John and Jacob, were undoubt- 
edly the first settlers of this township, as early as 1797, 
Charley Friend and Michael Nye came in 1800. In 
1807 the men destined to become the leading men of 
the township settled in Clear Creek. John Leist was 
born in 1784, in Northampton county, Penn. He was 
a soldier of the war of 181 2 and a member of the Ohio 
Legislature from 181 3 to 1820. He was distinguished 
for his integrity and rare good common sense. He 
reared a large family O't children. 

Rev. Jacob Leist, a pioneer Lutheran preacher, 
was his brother. Near John Leist's home in Dutch 
hollow the first church of the township was built. A 
flourishing society of Lutherans has worshipped there 
for ninety years. Judge John Augustus was a promi- 
nent man in Clear Creek. 



The early settlers of Bloom township were Abra- 
ham Courtright, Jesse D. Courtright, Z. Drake, C. 
Merchant, M. Allspaugh, Levi Moore and Christian 
Crumley. Abraham Courtright taught the first school 
in Bloom township; this was in 1805. It is claimed 
that a church was built in this township by Presbyteri- 
ans in 1807, on the old Columbus road. 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 105 

WALNUT 

William Murphey, Sr., and his three sons, Wil- 
liam, Benjamin and Edward, James Holmes and his 
family of boys, were the earliest settlers of Walnut 
township. Rev. John Hite, Samuel Crawford, Sam- 
uel Wiseman, Jacob Gulp and George DeBolt were 
ea^ly settlers. 

In this township is Buckeye Lake, once a great 
swamp and cranberry marsh, several miles in length, 
running from near Millersport to Thornville, a distance 
of eight miles. About the center, where the county 
line crosses, there existed a lake of considerable size 
on which floated a cranberry marsh. The marsh still 
floats there and berries are gathered every year by the 
daring and fearless natives. This was the great swamp 
mentioned by Gist where he camped in 1751. It was 
on the old Indian trail leading from Duquesne to the 
Shawanese town of old Chillicothe, on the Scioto. 
This trail passed Mt. Pleasant — a trading point called 
the "standing stone." This trail was the great overland 
route from Ft. Pitt to the falls of the Ohio near Louis- 
ville. 

John Goldthwait, a Yankee schoolmaster, born 
in Springfield, Mass., was an early settler in Walnut 
township. His farm was on the road half way be- 
tween Pleasantville and Xew Salem. He had previous- 
ly taught school, in 1801, in Athens, O., and in 1802 in 
Greenfield township. By some he is believed to be the 
first teacher in Fairfield County, but it is claimed that 
James Hunter, of \'irginia, taught school in Hocking 
township in 1801. 

Goldthwait planted the first apple orchard in the 
county, on what is now known as the Leverinsr farm. 



106 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

He brought his trees from Marietta or the Putnam 
nurseries. He started the first fruit nursery in this 
county on his Walnut township farm. He introduced 
the Fall Pippin, Rhode Island Greening, Wetherfield 
Seek No Further, Roxbury, Russett and other well 
known apples of New England. He lived a blameless 
life and was a devoted Methodist. His pride was the 
fine apples he had introduced into the county. There 
are but few names among the early pioneers deserving 
of greater honor than John Goldthwait. He died in 
1829, and was buried in the old church yard at New 
Salem. His descendants are prominent people of 
Grant County, Indiana. 

LIBERTY 

The first settler of Liberty township came as early 
as the year 1801. 

Christian Gundy and wife came to Fairfield Coun- 
ty in the year of 1800 from Lancaster county, Penn- 
sylvania. They came as far as Wheeling, Va., where 
Gundy left his wife and came on by himself. He 
cleared a piece of ground and planted it in corn on 
Walnut creek. During the summer he went to Wheel- 
ing for his wife. He spent the fall and winter in a 
rude camp with a blanket for a door. Robert Wilson, 
a neighbor of Gundy 's came about the same time. 

David Brumbuck came in 1803 and settled one- 
half a mile south of the present town of Baltimore. 
He later moved to Poplar creek, where he died. His 
son. ^Fartin, lived a long life upon this farm, where 
he was a farmer and grape grower. 

Xicho'las Badcr antl Jacob Showley came to the 
county in 1804 and settled one mile north of the pres- 
ent Baltimore, and there they lived and died. They 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 107 

were natives of Switzerland. They embarked on board 
flat-boats at Pittsburg- and floated down to the mouth 
of the Hockhockinq- and from there pulled their g-oods 
in canoes to the falls, or Hockhocking-, now Logan. 

Joseph Alt, also a Swiss, came in 1805 over the 
same route taken by P.adcr and Showley. He left his 
friends at the mouth of Hockhocking-, while he and his 
son, Joseph, made their way on loot to Fairfield to 
the home of Bader and Showcly. Air. Alt succeeded 
in brmging- his family and goods up the Hocking, and 
established them in his cal)in in the woods. 

His family has been a prominent and honorable 
one in Liberty township for ninety-four years. 
Emanuel Alt, the breeder of fine cattle two miles north 
of Baltimore, is a genial son. Here he owns a fine 
farm and a lo'vely home. 

Francis Biblcr came from Shenandoah county, 
A'a., in 1805. with four sons and four daughters. His 
cabin stood where Basil is now located. His family 
was without bread for five weeks. Bibler went to 
Chillicothe to obtain a supply of corn and could get 
but one bushel, for which he paid two dollars. This 
corn was ground at Woodring's mill, five miles west 
O'f his home, on Walnut creek. Their first crop of corn 
was destroyed by squirrels and crows. Bibler. in one 
morning, killed 38 squirrels on. one tree with his 
rifle and the next morning 18 raccoons from one tree. 

At one of the early elections in this township 
there were but seven ballots cast. 

Jacob (ioss, grandfather of Dr. J. H. Goss. of 
Lancaster, came to the township in 1807. He also 
cauie from .Switzerland. He had two sons and one 
dangliter. Sebastian Leonard came about the came 
time. 



108 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

Jacob Goss laid out the town of Basil in 1825. 
The plat was made by Jonathan Flattery, an early sur- 
veyor. The neighbors named, or chose the name by 
ballot and the casting vote was deposited by John Goss, 
father of the doctor. 

Henry Yanna kept the first tavern in the new 
village. He was also a butcher and sold thousands 
of pounds of beef to workmen on the Ohio Canal at 
3 cents per pound. His sign was an ox. Peter 
Darning, a Swiss, also opened up a tavern in probably 
the same year. His home was the "William Tell." He 
sold "stone fence cider" — four gallons of whiskey to 
one barrel of water. 

Henry D. Bolle, a Frenchman, kept the first store. 
His entire stock of goods rested on one shelf twelve 
feet long. In 1828 he sold out to Sebastian Leonard, 
Sr., father of Henry Leonard, and with $150 a new 
stock was purchased in Lancaster and Henry installed 
as the new merchant. 

Henry Leonard was born February 14, 181 2. He 
was a bright boy, but did not succeed in getting much 
primary education. He spent a few months in Gen, 
Maccracken's store in Lancaster, in order, as he said, 
to get some insight into the business. He returned to 
Basil and in a few years was a prosperous merchant. 
And the firm of Leonard Bros., Sebastian and Henry, 
became a large and well known establishment and had 
a profitable career for nearly forty years. Henr\' 
Leonard was much more than an ordinary man. He 
took a leading pari in all iHil)lic matters, was a leader 
in the church and a sincere Christian. Rev. George 
Leonard is his son. 

Mr. Leonard is authority for the statement that 
at funerals, before the people left the house, it was 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 109 

customary to hand round the whiskey bottle and other 
refreshments, and that he was frequently called upon 
to perform this honorable service. The writer has 
good reason to remember Henry Leonard. He was a 
noble, generous, gifted man, and his memory will long 
be green in Liberty township. He was a brother-in- 
law of the late Jacob Beck. They married sisters. 
They were, also, cousins. Their fathers married sis- 
ters, daughters of Jacob Goss. 

Rev. Martin Kaufifman, of the Baptist Church, was 
the first resident minister. Rev. John Hite, of Walnut 
Township, preached in the neighborhood of Basil for 
many years. Rev. Benadum, of Bloom township, a 
L'nited Brethren, preached often at the home of Mr. 
Showley, on Walnut creek. 

Rev. George Wise, of the German Reform church, 
begun to preach at Amspachs', south of Basil, in 1817, 
now known as St. Michael's Church. 

Men of great strength were numerous and popular 
among the pioneers. John Huntwork, not a giant in 
size, either, was a very strong man. Once at Zanes- 
ville, on a bet made by Mr. Fairchild, he loaded three 
wagons with salt, picking each barrel, weighing three 
hundred pounds each, by the chimes and pitching them 
into the wagons. 

On another occasion he carried eleven bushels of 
wheat up a pair of steps at one load. Noah Gundy, 
late of Liberty township, witnessed both astounding 
feats. 

Henry Leonard is the author's authority for state- 
ments in this chapter. 



JONATHAN ACHEY, 



A PROMINENT CITIZEN OF BALTIMORE, PASSES TO THE 
GREAT BEYOND. 

Jonathan Achey , was born in Lebanon county 
Pennsylvania, August 15, 1822. 

He was the only son of George and Elizabeth 
Spangler Achey. He received a common school edu- 
cation in Pennsylvania. Leaving school he removed 
with his father and family to Ohio. They spent one 
year in" Franklin County, and then moved to Licking 
County, locating in ^tna township. Here the father 
spent the remainder of his life, dying in the year 1870. 

Jonathan was apprenticed to the joiner and car- 
penter trade and served his time, as was then the cus- 
tom. About the year 1844, he came to Baltimore and 
began his career as a builder. He built many of the 
fine houses and barns in and about Baltimore. Among 
these the fine residence of the late Byron M. Pugh and 
the barn of John Bright, of Poplar creek. 

In the year 1847 he was married to Miss E. M. 
Gafiford, daughter of Joseph Gafiford. He has been an 
honored member of the Independent Order of Odd 
Fellows since the year 1852. During the greater part 
of his life he had been a church member, first of the 
Reformed Church ; latterly of the Evangelical. The 
life of Jonathan Achey was a modest, unobtrusive one, 
full of good deeds, and such as to merit and enjoy the 
esteem of all who knew him. An honest man, a good 
citizen and a Christian gentleman. 

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Of Fairfield County, Ohio. Ill 

For several years he served the people of Baltimore 
as a member of the town council and the board of 
education. As husband, father and public servant he 
was faithful to every trust and closed a long and use- 
ful life in peace. 

He left a widow and five children. His son Wil- 
liam Henry, a railroad man, lives in Texas. A daugh- 
ter, Nina May Crew, in Areola, Illinois. Mrs. Par- 
thenia E. Collins, Mrs. Sadie J. Cochran and Mrs. Car- 
rie Honora Bright live in Baltimore. 



BALTIMORE, FAIRFIELD COUNTY. 

J- 

Baltimore, Fairfield County, was for three or four 
years the shipping- port and rival of Lancaster. A 
brief sketch of the town and leading merchants is 
appended : 

The Ohio Canal was located through Fairfield 
County in the year 1825, and the first shovel full of 
earth thrown out by Gov. DeWitt Clinton, of New 
York, at a point near Hebron, in the presence of a 
vast concourse of people. Thos. Ewing and other 
prominent men of Lancaster participated. Gottlieb 
Steinman furnished a dinner upon a grand scale for 
that day. He told the writer that the crowd of people 
and the rush for dinner was so great that hundreds 
partook of it without payment, and that many persons 
afterwards sent their half dollar to him by mail. His 
loss was such as to greatly embarrass him. 

At the close of the ceremonies at Hebron, Gov. 
Clinton was escorted to Lancaster, where he remained 
one day the guest of the people of Lancaster, who vied 
with each other in doing him honor. From Lancaster 
he was escorted to the county line by a large concourse 
of prominent people, where he was met by a delegation 
of prominent citizens of Columbus. In this way he 
made the trip to Cincinnati, by way of Springfield and 
Dayton, returning to New York by way of Chillicothe 
and Lancaster. 

The canal was completed and ready for business in 
the year 1831, and the first boat passed Baltimore in 
October of that vear. The prospect of a canal caused 
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Of F airfield County, Ohio. 113 

many towns to be laid out upon the surveyed line, and 
of the number Baltimore became the most prominent. 
The original plat covered nearly one square mile. It 
was a boom town, like many now in the west, and hun- 
dreds of the lots are now pasture fields. 

The writer is indebted to Henry George Black, now 
a resident of Black Lick, Franklin County, Ohio, and 
long an honored citizen and merchant of Baltimore, for 
much of the information in this sketch, from whom we 
quote largely. Mr. Black has had a long and honor- 
able career and is passing a green old age quietly and 
pleasantly upon his farm. The partner of his long life 
was a Miss Rhoda E. Kelley, whom he married in No- 
vember, 1 84 1. 

" Henry Hildebrand laid out that part of the town 
lying south of the Licking Summit (about the year 
1826 or 1827). That part of Baltimore was called 
New Market. George Huntwork laid out the part of 
Baltimore north of the canal about the same time, and 
it was called Rome. By the act of incorporation, the 
two towms were united into one and called Baltimore. 
At the time I went to Baltimore, March, 1829, to live, 
there were quite a number of small stores there, among 
which were Zug & Gordon, George Clark, Busby & 

Fetters, Michael RufYner, William Wing, Rogers, 

Mahlon Atkinson & Co. After the completion of the 
canal the number was reduced and several firms 
changed. William Wing and J. Smith Atwood, who 
had been partners in the construction of several sec- 
tions of the canal, engaged in a general mercantile bus- 
iness and erected a grain warehouse and continued bus- 
iness until about the winter of 1835 and 1836, when J. 
Smith Atwood, having married a Chillicothe lady 



114 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

named Orr, removed to Chillicothe, Ohio, and engaged 
in the wholesale grocery business for a time, and then 
went into the banking business, and afterwards removed 
to Wall Street, New York city, where he continued in 
the banking business until he removed to Lincoln, Ne- 
braska, where he continued the banking business for a 
time, and died a few years since in Springfield, Mis- 
souri. 

Michael RufTner and Coulson Davenport, from 
Barnesville, Ohio, with John Davenport, father of 
Coulson, engaged in a general mercantile business in 
1829, and in 1832 or 1833, the Davenports withdrew 
from the business, when William Coulson, of Rush- 
ville,, Ohio, took the place of the Davenports 
with Michael Ruffner, under the firm name of M. 
Ruffner & Co., who erected the flouring mill on the 
canal, known now as the Norris mill. In 1838 or 1839 
Michael Ruffner sold his entire interest to William 
Coulson, and removed to Coles county, Illinois, where 
he died several years since. 

Mahlon Atkinson continued in business for a few 
years and left the place. Thomas Reed started with 
Asa Clark as a partner and continued in business a 
few years, when it was discontinued. Mr. Reed was a 
citizen of Lancaster, and was a partner of Wm. J. 
Reese, in business in Lancaster. 

Monticello and Millersport were located so near 
each other that upon the opening of the canal Monti- 
cello was entirely abandoned as a place of business and 
the business of the neighborhood was taken to Millers- 
port. Atwood & Usher opened a store at one of the 
points (which, I am unable to state). Mr. John D. 
Martin, of your city, can inform you of that fact. It 
is my opinion that Mr. Martin clerked a short time 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 115 

for Wing & Atwood, of Baltimore. There was a firm 
of Decions & Dellinger in the business a short time 
either at Monticello or Millersport. Harrison Del- 
hnger died, and Daniel Decions removed to Greenup, 
Illinois, where he practiced law. At the time what 
is now known as the new reservoir was being con- 
structed, Elias Vance, who had been in the employ of 
Wing & Atwood, at Baltimore, for some time, estab- 
lished a business at Millersport, erected a grain ware- 
house, and continued in business until about the time 
the Pittsburg and Fort Wayne railroad was being con- 
structed through the western part of Ohio, when he 
removed to the town of Van Wert, Ohio, where he 
died some years since. 

The first canal boat passed Baltimore in October, 
183 1, is my recollection, and they were expected 
in September, and several days had been named for 
their arrival. The citizens of Baltimore had placed a 
cannon on the bluff near the hotel to announce the ar- 
rival of the first boat, which remained in position some 
days before it was made to let the country people 
know that the boat had arrived. 

Nathaniel R. Usher was a brother-in-law of At- 
wood, and died several years since in one of the north- 
west states. 

About the year 1829 or 1830, Dr. Silas S. Geohe- 
gan and Amos T. Swayze began the publication of a 
weekly newspaper called The Bahimore Times and 
Canal Register. After continuing it for a time, it is 
my recollection that they sold the press to a Wm. A. 
W. Rawlings, and later I think it went into the hands 
•of a Mr. Ellis, when it was removed to the town of 
Somerset, Ohio. 



116 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

William Wing, having succeeded several mercantile 
firms in business in Baltimore, in 1842, made an as- 
signment, and applied for the benefit of the Bankrupt 
Law. then in operation. At the sale of his stock of 
goods Tunis Cox and Elijah S. Anderson became the 
purchasers, and continued business for a few years. 
In the month of August, 1843, ^ opened a small stock 
of goods, and continued in business until about the 
close of the w&r of the rebellion. 

I was born in the month of June. 181 7. and lived 
in the village of Rushville. Ohio, until eleven years old, 
when I went to live with INIichael Rufifner. at Pleasant- 
ville, Ohio, in June. 1828. The next March Rufifner 
removed to Baltimore. Ohio. 

Dr. Luke Helmick and Dr. Wm. M. P. Quinn 
were practicing physicians in Baltimore at an early 
day, and they had several passes at each other in the 
Baltimore Times ncAvspaper, showing up the dark 
spots on their character, but it did not terminate as 
the Osborn-Elliott case at Columbus, a fen- years 
since. 

William Lamb slaughtered and packed pork on his 
farm, where he resided, in Walnut township, for a 
number of years, in the winter season, and conveyed 
the product to Baltimore, when it was shipped by canal 
boat to Cleveland. Mr. Lamb, about the year 1838. 
became a partner with Wm. Wing in the dry goods 
and grain business, and remained so until 1841, when 
he sold his interest in the firm to Wm. Wing, who as- 
signed in 1842, as I stated above. 

William Coulson, of Rushville, and Joseph H. 
Ijams, of West Rushville, Ohio, in connection with 
their general store, purchased and packed in hogslieads 
of one thousand pounds or more the yellow tobacco 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 117 

that was raised by the farmers of the Rushcreek Hills, 
and conveyed the same to Baltimore for shipment by 
the Ohio Canal to an eastern market. Joseph H. Ijams 
established a general store in Baltimore, Ohio, about 
1838. in which Oliver S. Reed was a partner, and who 
had previously been in the employ as a clerk with 
Michael Rufifner first, and William Wing afterward, 
and who died in the city of Columbus several years 
since. 

David C. Ruffncr at one time resided in Baltimore. 
He purchased a farm on the road between Baltimore 
and Millersport, on which he resided till the time of his 
death, which occurred in the city of Columbus, in con- 
sequence of an accident that befell him when conveying 
a horse thief he had arrested, on whom there w^as a re- 
ward ofifered for his arrest. 

Dr. William Trevitt practiced medicine at Balti- 
more in 1830, for a time, when he removed to Thorn- 
ville, Perry County, and was elected to the legislature, 
and afterward became the secretary of the state of 
Ohio, and died in the city within the last fifteen years. 

The first meal I ate in Baltimore was at the hotel 
kept by Laughlin Kennedy, who did not remain in the 
l)usiness long. John B. Allen, Henry Warner and 
Joseph Gafiford kept hotels in the early days of Balti- 
more. Judge Abram Pitcher opened a public house 
for a short time only, on the corner of Alain and Lib- 
erty Streets, where Jonathan Achey now resides. 

Michael Ruffner, referred to by Mr. Black, was of 
an old Virginia family, with a very large connection in 
this county. Benjamin Rufifner and David Rufifner 
were old-time business men of this county, and known 
far and wide. Col. Joseph Ruffner and his sisters, 



118 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

Mrs. Daniel Keller, Christian Baker and David Pence 
were of the same family. 

N. R. Usher was an engineer on the Ohio Canal 
and after his experience as a merchant, owned and oc- 
cupied the farm now the home of Milton Taylor, Wal- 
nut township. John D. Martin, of this city, when a 
boy, clerked in his store as a dry goods clerk. 

General W. S. Rosecrans was at one time a clerk 
with John D. Martin, in a store at Utica, Licking 
County, Ohio. 

Atwood & Co. were at one time one of the best 
known banking firms of New York city. 

Wm. Wing was a man of ability, but unfortunate 
in business. Late in life he became the secretary of 
the Ohio Central railroad and died at Newark, Ohio 
a few years since. 

Monticello was a considerable village at the time 
the canal was finished. The location of Millersport 
by Mathias Miller killed the old town, and all that is- 
left of the old site is an old well on the Lancaster road, 
about one-half mile south of Millersport. 

Wm. Lamb was a business man of more than local 
reputation, but like his partner, Wm. Wing, failed in 
business and took the benefit of the Bankrupt Law. 
In his old age he parted with his Walnut township' 
farm and purchased a farm west and adjoining the 
homestead of U. C. Rutter, where he died a few years 
since. 

Wm. Coulson and Joseph H. Ijams were famous 
merchants of their respective towns, Rushville and 
West Rushville, but like hundreds of others they went 
down in the great crash of the early forties and never 
recovered. Coulson died in Rushville, having passed 
his 90th year. Ijams died in Iowa many years since.. 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 119 

Joseph Gafford, a successful produce merchant of 
BurHngton, Iowa, is a son of the old Baltimore land- 
lord of that name. 

Pittsford, Reed & Co. were the successors of Jo- 
seph H. Ijams. Pittsford was the state superintendent 
of the Baltimore division of the Ohio Canal at the 
time he embarked in the mercantile business. In a few 
years he tired of the business and settled upon a farm 
near Kirkersville, Ohio, where he died many years 
since. His daughter became the wife of Isaac Fink- 
bone, of Liberty township. Casper Feidler, well known 
in Lancaster, and Jacob Wagner succeeded Tunis Cox 
in the mercantile business in the year 1849. 

A good story is told of Henry G. Black, when a 
young clerk for Michael Ruffner. Baltimore was then 
the great shipping port for Fairfield County, and the 
Cleveland grain merchant often sent money by canal 
boats to Baltimore to purchase wheat. On one occa- 
sion a keg of coin was rolled off at the Baltimore wharf 
in the night. The captain called up the young clerk 
to take charge of the money. He is said to have re- 
plied, "never mind, no one will know what the keg 
contains, and it will be there in the morning." Dan 
Clinger says that in 1839 a string of wagons a quarter 
of a mile long could be seen every day for hours wait- 
ing their turn to unload grain. 



TOBEY TOWN — ROYALTON. 



CHERE are but few, if any, places in this covinty 
with a more interesting pioneer history than 
Royalton and the neighborhood. 

The early settlers were vigorous, intelligent, brainy 
men, and from earliest times it has been a noted, refined 
and intelligent community. 

William and Horatio Clark, it is believed, were the 
first settlers, along with W. Lane, father-in-law of H. 
Clarke. They settled on Tobey creek, one mile north- 
west of the present village of Royalton, and near the 
Indian village of Tobey Town.. The date of their 
coming was in the year 1799. A family named Win- 
tersteen came near the same time and settled on Sec. 
32, of Bloom township. In the same year, month of 
November, Wilkinson Lane, of Pennsylvania, settled 
on Sec. 8, Amanda township, and in June, 1800, 
Thomas and Broad Cole, perhaps brothers, settled 
on the same section. One of the family, Abraham 
Cole, was a school teacher. Broad Cole was one of 
this family (we do not refer to the son of Thomas Cole, 
of that name, born in 1802) and was a tax payer m 
1806. Bishop Asbury preached in his cabin at 3 P. M. 
on a week day, in 1803, the first preaching west of 
Lancaster, O. We cannot learn of any descendants of 
this Broad Cole, but that he lived here in 1803 and 1806 
is unquestioned. Broad Cole, son of Thomas, born in 
1802, married a daughter of Samuel Peters and 
lived upon the old homestead at the " big spring." His 
(120) 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 121 

son, Thomas Cole, is a farmer in Amanda and an old 
school Baptist preacher. In June, 1807, David Svvope 
and William Long settled on Sec. 8. In the year 1800 
Dr. Silas Allen and his four sons, Whiting, Benjamin, 
Lemuel and Jedadiah, came and settled on Sec. 3. The 
families of John Searle and Abner Burnet, came with 
them. Subsequently, probably several years, Burnet 
moved to Meigs County, and Whiting and Benjamin 
Allen to Delaware County, Ohio. Col. William Ham- 
ilton lived on Sec. 10 as early as 1810. In that year 
he laid out Royalton for the Aliens and uoon their land. 
The village was so named for a town or county in their 
old home in Vermont. The first female child born in 
the new settlement was Eliza, daughter of Lemuel 
Allen. She was known in later years as Mrs. Meeker, 
and lived beyond 93 years. Dr. Silas Allen died in 
the year 1825. The first school in the neighborhooa 
was taught by Miss L. Case in 1810. Lemuel Allen 
brought her from Granville, O. The building used 
was a new stable. The next school was taught by 
Warren Case, of Granville. In 1812 Henry Calhoun 
taught the school. In 1810 the Rev. Hoag. of Colum- 
bus, a Presbyterian, preached in Lemuel Allen's house. 
This was the first preaching in the neighborhood ex- 
cept that of Bishop Asbury in 1803, ^^ the house of 
Broad Cole. Lemuel Allen kept the first hotel or tav- 
ern, Jacob Bush kept the first store in the new town. 
In 1814 the Methodists organized a society — which 
still flourishes. 

Stephen Cole built the first mill and carding ma- 
chine on Cole's run. 

Richard Hooker was an early settler in the neigh- 
borhood on Sec. 19. Richard Hooker was for years 
a Justice of the Peace. In September, 1817. Elder Eli 



122 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

Ashbrook and Elder Jacob Tharp organized the Turkey- 
Run Baptist Church. Their meetings were held in 
Hooker's school house as late as 1838. 

Elder Ashbrook died in Licking Count, January, 
1877, aged 96 years. 

Valentine Reber and wife came from Berks County, 
Pa., in 1805 and purchased Sec. 10, where he lived and 
reared a very large family. A talented family, widely- 
known and highly esteemed. 

David Swope came to this county from Huntington 
county, Pa., in the year 1801. His son, Thomas Swope, 
was born in the year 1801. He lived upon the old home 
during his life. 

Thomas Swope was a very substantial and highly 
esteemed citizen and left a good name as the heritage 
of his children. 

His son, I^elix, resides upon the old Cole place and 
his sister upon the home farm of Daniel Swope. Jacob 
Swope lives in Missouri, Thomas at Reynoldsburg, O., 
Abner R. at Bloomingsville, Fayette County, O. Sam- 
uel lives in Wood County, O. 

Joseph Clement was an early merchant of Royalton, 
We cannot give the date of his coming. He brought 
his family to Royalton from New Jersey, of which 
state he was a native. His sons were Charles, Joseph 
W. and Wm. L. A daughter married George Creed, 
Sr., and after the death of Creed she married James 
M. Pratt. Mary, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George 
Creed, Sr., married Governor Lowe, of California. 

William L. Clement, a son-in-law of Valentine 
Reber, was a merchant for many years in Royalton and 
did a thriving business. This was between the years 
1840 and 1880. His second wife was a daughter of 
Dr. Reber. of Brandon, Miss., a niece of his first wife. 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 123 

Ezra Schleich was a merchant of Royalton about 
1835 to 1840. Samuel Busby lived there as early as 
1826 and '27 and then his son, J. T. Busby, was born- 
Busby removed to Baltimore where he and a brother- 
in-law. Fetter, started a store in 182Q. 

Alfred McVeigh taught school there prior to 1840 
and was a justice of the peace up to the time of his 
election as county auditor. 

John D. Schleich lived there a few years, and there 
Col. Newton Schleich attended school. 

Next to Dr. Silas Allen, Dr. Ezra Clarke was an 
early physician of Royalton. He came there from 
Vermont. He was father-in-law of Dr. Miner, of 
Lithopolis. He came to Lancaster to live in 1823. 
He died in the year 1830 and was buried in Zane Cem- 
etery. Dr. Rogers, from Vermont, practiced in Roy- 
alton in 1830. 

Dr. M. Z. Kreider lived in Royalton a few years, 
but came to Lancaster about 1832 or 1833. Dr. Paul 
practiced medicine in Royalton for a number of years 
and died there. He had one or two daughters and 
three or four sons. Joseph H. Clements married his 
oldest daughter. They moved to Illinois where the 
wife was accidentally burned to death and Clements 
died of disease. Dr. Paul sent for the children and 
brought them up in Royalton. The oldest son, Joseph 
Clements, married a daughter of Professor Freed. 
Dr. Frisbie lived for some years in Royalton. He had 
two daughters. One of them married Edward Hay. 
They moved to Hancock county. Dr. Frisbie, in his 
old age, went to live with them and died there. Paul 
and Frisbie were Vermonters. Dr. Frisbie married a 
second wife. She lived in Middletown, Vt., and was 
the widow of Orion Clarke, an attorney of Middle- 



124 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

town, during his life. He brought his bride ^o Royal- 
ton and her two sons, W. C. a.id Arthur. W. C. 
Clarke, who died but recently, married a daughter of 
Dr. Miner, of Lithopolis. 

JUDGE BEATTY 

John Beatty, who was born and reared near Colfax, 
married Delilah, daughter of Nicholas Beery, Jr., and 
moved to the Tent in Pleasant township, where he 
operated a tannery. There, in 1836, May 8, their son, 
James H. Beatty, was born. About the year 1840 he 
moved to Royalton, Ohio, where he was a tanner, mer- 
chant and stock dealer until the year 1857, when he 
moved to Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. James H. graduated 
from the Ohio Wesleyan University in 1858 and then 
joined his parents in Iowa, where he studied law. 

In 1872 he went to Utah and served some years as 
U. S. attorney. In 1882 he moved or located in Bois 
City, Idaho. For ten years past he has been United 
States District Judge for the Pacific slope, residing 
in Bois City. At this writing his parents are both dead. 
His grandmother was a sister of Frederick Sites as is 
the wife of the late Dr. Luke Helmick, of Baltimore, 
Ohio. 

Dr. E. L. Miner was born in Middletown, Vermont, 
June 9, 1797. He was educated at Castleton College 
and graduated there in 18 18. He then studied medi- 
cine, and moved to Royalton, Fairfield County, Ohio, 
in 1820. 

In the year 1825 he moved to Centerville, now 
Lithopolis, where he lived an honorable and useful life 
for 45 years. 

He was one of the founders of the Presbyterian 
Church of Lithopolis and the organizer of the Sunday 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 125 

School. Dr. Miner was during his Hfe a prominent 
and useful man. 

The state of Vermont gave to Fairfield County a 
number of good men, beside Dr. Miner, Dr. Ezra 
Clarke, Dr. Silas Allen and his four sons. Dr. Torrence, 
E. B. Merwin, an attorney, and Dr. Paul. William 
Slade, son of Ex-Governor Slade, was an attorney of 
Lancaster. Dr. Rogers and Dr. Frisbie. 

Other New England states gave us Beecher, 
Scofield. Sherman, Creed, Foster, Converse. Peck, 
Whitman, Dr. Hyde, Pennsylvania, ^NlcCracken, 
Kreider and Sanderson. New York gave us 
Stanbery, Clark and Brasee. Virginia gave us 
Thos. Ewing and Judge Irvin. All bright, brilliant, 
educated men, who were chiefly instrumental in estab- 
lishing the civilization we now enjoy. 
JOHN HUMRIGHOUS 

For 55 years Mr. Humrighous was an undertaker of 
Royalton — in that time he buried 2,500 people, within 
a radius of ten miles. At the time of his death in 1893 
he was the second oldest undertaker in the United 
States. He was born on the Huston farm near Roy- 
alton in 181 1. He married Magdaline Wagner near 
Carroll, Ohio. 

They were the parents of five children. Their 
daughter Mary Ann married H. S. Smith, of Bloom 
township. 

John W. married Mary Ann Reber, daughter ot 
Thomas Reber. He is now a retired farmer of Shelby- 
ville. 111. Irvin married Mary Allen and moved to 
Shelbyville, 111. 

Lewis married Ellen Murry, Henry married Mary 
E. Strayer. Henry and Lewis live upon the old home 
place and carry on their father's old business. 



126 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

THE ALLEN FAMILY 

The Allen family has been prominent in Fairfield 
County for one hundred years. The pioneer, Dr. Silas 
Allen, was a man of education and character, and his 
descendants were numerous, and throughout their 
long career have maintained the reputation of their 
distinguished ancestor. Samuel Allen (the first) came 
to America from B'ridgewater, Somerset County, 
England, in 1620, and settled in Baintree, Massachu- 
setts. His wife's name was Ann, but we can not 
give the surname. Their son Samuel (the second), 
was born in 1632. A daughter, Sarah, was born in 
1639, married Joseph Standish, a son of Miles 
Standish, of the " Mayflower." This Samuel, the 
second, married Sarah Partridge. Their son Samuel 
(the third), was born in 1660. He married Rebecca 
Carey in 1685. Their son Samuel (the fourth), was 
born in 1686. Their son Timothy, was born in 1691, 
and was the grandfather of General Ethan Allen, of 
Revolutionary fame. Rebecca died in 1697, and Sam- 
uel (the third), married Mary Alden, a daughter of 
Joseph, a son of Captain John Alden, made famous by 
Longfellow in " Miles Standish," and the first man 
to land on Plymouth Rock. To this union were born 
six children, viz.: Joseph, in 1701, Benjamin, in 1702, 
Mary, in 1704, Rebecca, in 1706, Matthew, in 1708, 
Seth, in 1710. This family, about the year 1727, 
moved to Connecticut, and settled at Norwich, later 
they moved to Centerbury, Conn. At Norwich, Jo- 
seph Allen married Rebecca Fuller, of Preston. Their 
son, Barnabas, was born February 24, 1729, at Nor- 
wich. Barnabas married Elizabeth Fuller, daughter 
of Randolph Fuller, in 1752. Their son, Silas, was 
born in 1754. He was educated and studied medicine. 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 127 

He married Mary Cleveland, daughter of Samuel 
Cleveland, May i6, 1776. She was a fourth cousin 
of Moses Cleveland, the founder of the city of Cleve- 
land, Ohio. She was also related to Grover Cleve- 
land's ancestors. Soon after their marriage, with 
others of their family, Dr. Allen and wife moved to 
Middletown, Vermont. Their children were Lemuel, 
Jared, Rebecca, Anna, Elizabeth, Benjamin, Jedadiah, 
who was born in 1781, and Whiting, born in 1782. 

In the year 1800, Dr. Silas Allen, with his family 
and several neighbors, in all forty persons, left Mid- 
dletown, Vermont, for the West, intending to go as 
far as the Mississippi river. Arriving in Fairfield 
County, they found the country on Tobey creek so 
inviting that they concluded to remain there and be- 
come permanent settlers. In the course of time Whit- 
ing and Benjamin Allen moved with their families to 
Delaware County, Ohio, where they were prosper- 
ous and respected people. 

Whiting Allen married Mahitable Searle, one of 
a family, of the 40 emigrants mentioned. A descend- 
ant of this Searle family married a daughter of George 
Ewing, of Iowa City, Iowa, and resides there in 
charge of a newspaper. 

Amos S. Thomas, of Lancaster, is a great-grand- 
son of Whiting Allen. Mrs. Eliza Meeker was a 
daughter of Lemuel Allen, and died aged 93 vears. 
Dr. Silas Allen lived an exemplary and useful life in 
his new home, reared and established his family, and 
at the age of 71 years, September 7, 1825, departed 
this life. His body was buried in the grave yard at 
Royalton. 

Jedadiah Allen, fourth son of Dr. Allen and Mary 
Cleveland, married Sarah Bull, about the year 1803. 



128 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

Their children were, Rachel, born 1809, Howard, born 
in 181 1, Lyman born in 1813. Rachel became the 
wife of Thomas Reber, and died near Upper San- 
dusky, Ohio. Howard married a daughter of John 
Leist. He was a farmer and successful in business. 
He was the father of John and Jesse Allen, who now 
live on the old Allen homestead. Howard was the 
father of Sarah, widow of the late Henry Reber ; Mrs. 
L. J. Silbaugh is a granddaughter. Lyman Allen mar- 
ried Eliza, daughter of Valentine Reber, in 1836, and 
spent his life amid the scenes of the early struggles 
of his pioneer ancestor. His children were Charles, 
Clinton and ]\Iary, now dead ; and Flavins, born in 
1842. Magdalene born in 1844, Elnora born in 1846, 
Ethel born in 1848. Valentine Reber, born in 185 1, 
Rachel born in 1853. and died June 22, i860, Olive, 
born in 1858. Lyman Allen died November 16, 1894. 

Jedadiah Allen was one of the best known men of 
Amanda township. He was a fine business man, full 
of energy and industry, and accumulated a large 
estate, a part of which he bequeathed to the " Ohio 
Wesleyan L^niversity." The late Jacob Beck was 
his executor. Jedadiah died September 5, 1856, at his 
modest home in Royalton. 

Valentine Reber Allen married Effie Courtright in 
the year 1877. She was a daughter of Zephenia 
Courtright, one of the prominent and well known men 
of Fairfield County. 

Their children are Pearl, now deceased, Eugene 
Huber, Efifie Alarie and Mary Etta. 

V. R. Allen is one of the respected farmers and 
citizens of Greenfield township. 

Dr. Hogue, Presbyterian, of Columbus, held ser- 
vices at an earlv dav in the home of Lemuel Allen. 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 129 

So far as known, however, the family are now and 
have been for three-quarters of a century, Metho- 
dists. There are many families in this county con- 
nected by blood or marriage with old historic Amer- 
ican families, and none more prominently so, than 
the Allen family. Harding and Jerome Allen were 
sons of Lemuel. They both moved to Delaware 
County, Ohio, and later Jerome moved to Shelbyville, 
Illinois. 

COLE BROTHERS 

Thomas Cole, and a brother. Broad Cole, came 
to Fairfield County in the year 1801, and settled in 
Amanda Township. They came from Huntington 
County, Penn. 

Broad Cole was a Methodist, and Bishop Asbury, 
on his first journey to Ohio in 1803, preached at his 
cabin in the afternoon of a week day. 

Mr. Broad Cole did not remain many years in 
this county, but moved to Pickaway County, where 
he died and w^as buried. 

His son Shadrick was a man of some prommence 
and was a Methodist preacher of local reputation. 
A son. of Shadrick Cole moved to Nebraska. 
Thomas Cole, born March 15. 1757, was one of the 
])rominent early citizens of Amanda Township, and 
he lived there during his life. His son Broad Cole 
married a daughter of Sanuiel Peters and lived and 
died upon the farm now owned by Felix Swope. His 
son Thomas Cole of Amanda Township is one of the 
intelligent and worthy men of the township and an 
old school Baptist preacher of more than local repu- 
tation. 



RUSHVILLE. 



AN INTERESTING SKETCH ABOUT ITS PIONEERS. 

CHE village of Rushville was laid out at an early 
day by a man named Montgomery and Joseph 
Turner, latter being owner of the land. Mont- 
gomery kept a tavern there as early as 1804. A man 
named Owens was the first merchant. What became 
of him or his family is not known. A man named 
Plummer erected the first mill near the village. 

The descendants of Turner still reside in the vil- 
lage or in the county. 

Daniel Baker, one of the most prominent men of 
the early period, was a native of Maryland. When a 
young man he learned the trade of a carpenter with 
William Dufifield of Lancaster,' whose dwelling stood 
where the courthouse now stands. He married Mary 
McNamee of Walnut township, and lived for a time 
on the farm now owned bv Mrs. Boyer, on the Salem 
pike. There his son Milton was born November 
28, 181 5. Daniel Baker moved to Rushville in the 
year 1817, and died there in the year 1855. 

He was during his life a very highly esteemed 
citizen and a very zealous member of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church. He built their house of worship 
in Rushville, but in what year we cannot state. 

As late as 1821 the Methodists worshipped at Rich- 
land chapel near Daniel Stevenson's. 

Baker was a fine carpenter and built most of the 
fcarly homes in and about Rushville. His son, Milton 
Baker, a very exemplary citizen, is now in his 84th 
(130) 



Of Fairfield Cojiiify, Ohio. 131 

year, the oldest man of Rushville, having Hved there 
82 years. He has had a long life and it has been a 
useful and honorable one. A daughter of Daniel Ba- 
ker married a ]Vf cFec ; they are the parents of Wilber 
and Homer ]McFee of Lancaster, Ohio. 

The wife of Daniel Baker was a daughter of 
Thomas McNamee of Walnut township. He owned 
the land where Henry Musser now lives. There were 
several McNamee brothers ; Job and .\dam lived in 
Walnut, George and Moses lived and died in Mary- 
land. 

The McNamees were prominent people and the 
owners of good land. One of their sisters married a 
Shane and one of his daughters was the first wife of 
James Ashbrook. 

Job McNamee of Kankakee, Illinois, is a son of 
Job, Sr. A sister of Job was the first wife of the late 
John Lamb. The second wife of John Lamb was the 
Widow Gafford of Baltimore, Ohio. 

John Baker, a brother of Daniel, was once county 
recorder of this county. His wife was a daughter of 
Judge Swayze. Another brother was Rev. Job Baker, 
who was an early Methodist preacher in this vicinity, 
but went South, and after a long career, died in 
Texas. 

Rev. Henry Baker and Rev. Samuel Baker, neph- 
ews of Daniel Baker, were Methodist preachers. Rev. 
Hcnrv Baker was stationed in Lancaster, C^hio. in the 
year 1840. J. H. Baker, son of Rev. Henry Baker, 
became a newspaper man and was elected Secretary 
of State for Ohio and Minnesota some thirty or more 
years since. He now resides at Mankato, Minn. 

As has been stated, Owens was the first merchant. 
In 1 82 1 there came to Rushville one who soon became 



132 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

its (listing-nished and well known merchant, William 
Coulson. He was a native of Pennsylvania, but came 
to Rushville from the town of Barnesville. He was 
a brother-in-law of Hon. John Davenport, who at 
one time was a member of Congress from Ohi(>. \\\\- 
liam Coulson transacted a very large business for 20 
years. Sold many goods and dealt largely in tobacco. 
When the Ohio Canal was completed in 183 1 he 
formed a partnersliip with his son-in-law. Michael 
Ivuffner, and opened a store in Baltimore. He also 
built a large \\archouse and a llouring mill. 1*'he 
warehouse is still standing but useless for that pur- 
]:)o.>e. William ^^ ing was a rival of the firm, and 
they made a very disastrous failure in 1841 or 1842. 

i\Ir. Coulson never recovered from this failure, 
and resorted to teaching school for a living. He was 
an eiTective local preacher of the Methodist Church. 
He was a man of fine presence, of fine mind and well 
informed. He lived beyond the age of 90 years. 

[lis chil'lren were Lr.u.isa. who married Michael 
RuiTner, and died in Baltimore, ( )hio. Mike Ruffncr, 
before going to 1 Baltimore, ran a small store in Pleas- 
antviile. Chit); he had formerly kei>t a tin and copper 
shop iu Rushville. -\fter the death of his wife, he 
courted and manied a girl who lived with William 
Wing, and with her moved to Greenup, Illinois, and 
set up for a doctor vvithout much preparation for so 
res]:)onsible a profession. His body was buried at the 
cemetery near Casey, Illinois, along with many other 
Fairfield County people. 

Ann Coulson married Dr. Hyde, the most promi- 
nent man of Riishville. and a verv fine scholar. 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 133 

Mary Coulson married G. W. Ritchie, who was a 
merchant in partnership with his brother-in-law, Na- 
thaniel Coulson. 

Susan married W. B. Lewis, who was a merchant 
and justice of the peace; they reared a nice family. 
Dr. Lewis and John Lewis, the merchant, both of 
Rushville, are their sons. 

Lydia Coulson married for her first husband, Joel 
Beckwith of Somerset, Ohio. For her second hus- 
band, she married Lewis Peters of Nebraska, Pick- 
away County. She is still living, the widow of Mr. 
Peters, with her step-son Dr. Peters. 

Nathaniel Coulson succeeded his father in busi- 
ness, with G. W. Ritchie as his partner, and later he 
was in business for himself. Late in life he moved to 
Edina, Missouri, where he died. 

Thomas Coulson married for his first wife a Miss 
Tallman of Greenfield township. She was said to be 
the handsomest young woman in Fairfield County. 
For his second wife he married a daughter of the late 
Joshua Clarke. He has lived in the West for over 
45 years. For some years he lived at Trinidad, Col- 
orado, where he died a short time ago. 

John Davenport Coulson was a school teacher, 
and died while yet a young man. 

William Coulson, Jr., died before he had attained 
his majority. 

The grandchildren of William Coulson are numer- 
ous and highly respected people. 

Some vears after the coming of Coulson to Rush- 
ville, C. G. Wilson & Co., of Zanesville, opened a store 
there. This store was managed by Gilbert McFad- 
den, who in time became the sole proprietor. He lived 
in Rushville manv years, an honest, upright life, and 



134 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

after the war, moved to Hillsboro, Ohio. He died 
in a few years after settling in Hillsboro. 

William Reed of Baltimore, Maryland, came to 
Rushville about 1850, and opened a store, which he 
operated a few years. He then closed out and removed 
to Chicago, Illinois. 

W. B. Lewis was a merchant in Rushville for a 
number of \ears. He was a good citizen, but did not 
leave much of an estate. 

Rev. Henry Fernandes was a pioneer preacher and 
a very popular one for many years in Fairfield County. 
In his old age he ran a small store in Rushville. After 
his death his daughters became teachers in Chillicothe, 
Ohio. 

Mansfield & Kellev were merchants in Rushville 
in T840. Brooke & Lewis were there in 1849 and 
1850. Josepli (i. Nonrse, a well educated man and a 
very thorough business man. was a merchant for 
several years in Rushville, going there in ab')ut the 
year 185 1. From there he moved to Cincinnati, where 
he died of smallp;)x. lie married a daughter of the 
late Orrcn .-\blHitt of this countv. 

William Hutchinson, Asa 13cnnison cuul lUul Kerr 
were merchants in later \cars. 

Dr. Simon Hyde and the elder Turner were the 
early ])hysicians of Rushville, and Dr. Nathaniel Wait 
still earlier in West Rushville. Dr. Wait was the 
father-in-law of the late John Van Zandt. 

Rushville is located u])()n a high bluff, just where 
Rush Creek enters the great canxon, which is the 
wonder and admiration of all who visit the hx^ality. 
Here is the high bridge. 45 feet above the waters of 
Rush Creek. It is an iiUeresting old town, one of the 
earliest of the county, the home and trading point of 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 135 

many famous old pioneers, whose names even will be 
lost to history, unless soon gathered up and preserved 
in some permanent form. 

This generation cannot learn too much of the his- 
tory of the prominent people of forty or fifty years 
ago. Dr. Simon Hyde, late of Rushville, Ohio, father 
of Eber Hyde and Airs. Dr. Lewis, of this city, was a 
giant in intellect, a famous scholar and an eminent phy- 
sician of that period. When quite a young man two 
of his brothers were sent to college. Young Simon 
was not of robust health, and remained with his pa- 
rents upon their farm near Norwich, Connecticut. As 
his l)rothers laid aside their l)ooks, he took them up an 1 
alone and unaided mastered the college course. He 
WTis a fine Latin, Hebrew and Greek scholar, and was 
especially fine in matb.cmatics. ( )f the latter, astron- 
oniv was his favorite, louring his long life he was a 
student of tlie r.il)lc, and always read it either in the 
Latin, fireek or Mel)rew. .At about the age of tweti 
ty-three years, he left his Connecticut home and made 
his wa\- the best he could on foot to Ohio. This was 
about the year 1815. On leaving home he said to Iv^ 
mother: " A'ou will find in my trunk some (dd papers 
which Nou nun he interested in after 1 am gone." Like 
all mothers un<ler similar circumstances, she lost no 
time in mastering tlie contents of the trunk. Among 
other interesting i:)apers found was a complete almanac, 
calculated for t\\ent\- years, as perfect as any pro- 
fessor of astronomy could have made it. His first 
sto])ping place in ( )hio was Franklinton, on the Scioto 
river. He remained there two years, but was so af- 
flicted with chills, that he concluded to try the hill 
countrw and removed to Rushville, where he continued 
to reside until his death. There he tauuht school and 



136 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

completed his medical studies. He became a very pop- 
ular and successful physician, and his practice extended 
over a very large extent of country. He would call 
to see a patient ten miles distant, would then be called 
upon to go further, and in this way his trips often ex- 
tended over two or three days. He was somewhat 
eccentric, but possessed a generous heart. At about 
the age of forty years he married a daughter of Wil- 
liam Coulson, then one of the prominent merchants of 
Fairfield County. This union was blessed with eleven 
children, four dying in infancy. The sons were Dr. 
William Hyde, of Detroit; Eber, of Lancaster; Solon, 
of Columbus ; Joseph K., of Rushville, and Rodney, of 
Adams county, Ohio. The daughters were Mrs. Dr. 
Lewis, of Lancaster, and Mrs. Harmon, of Columbus, 
Ohio. His boys were principally taught by their 
father, in which employment he spent his leisure hours, 
and in which he took great delight. He was a strong, 
rugged-looking man, kind and affectionate to his fam- 
ily. His daughter Mary (Mrs. Lewis) was educated 
at Lee Female College, Massachusetts. Dr. Hyde was 
a man of great endurance, and of great physical 
strength. 

" He never felt fear." 

This was demonstrated on one occasion in a very 
singular and dramatic manner. He was called to visit, 
in great haste, one of the Wilsons, just west of West 
Rushville. and as he approached the old bridge over 
Rush Creek, not so high as the present one, he saw a 
drove of cattle near the west end. He pushed on, 
however, notwithstanding the remonstrances of the 
drover, who urged him frantically to stop. Seeing the 
doctor determined to cross first, he took off his coat 
and met him in the center of the bridge, and caught 



137 Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 

his horse by the bridle. The doctor very cooly dis- 
mounted, and remarking, " I will teach you better than 
to stop a doctor in a hurry to visit a patient," picked 
up the drover, raised him over the bridge railing, and 
dropped him into the water, some ten feet below. Then, 
as calmly as he got down, he mounted his horse and 
rode off. Dr. Hyde died at the advanced age of 79 
years. His life was pure and honorable, devoted to 
his family, and to the good of his fellow men. The 
poor and unfortunate always found in him a friend. 
The good that he did lives after him. 

"Greater is he that easeth men of their pains, than 
he that taketh cities." — Oriental Proverb. 



OLD TIME TAVERNS. 



mANY of tlie first taverns of Lancaster and 
Fairfield Comity had odd, and to the present 
generation, singular names. 

Historical characters and animals were drawn upon 
without stint, and hy long association, many of those 
dear old names revive in the aged and middle-aged 
sweet memories of the past and associates and friends 
long since gathered to their fathers. 

One of the most striking signs of the early period 
was that of Samuel Graybill, two miles out of Lancas- 
ter, on Columbus pike, where the old home still stands. 
This tavern was called the Green Tree. And there 
was painted on the sign a large tree, and a pack of 
hounds, and Graybill on horseback, with a fox on a 
leaning tree, ready to spring. Fox hunting was the 
joy of Graybill's life. 

Another coimtry sign was the Blue Ball, at the 
Rock Mill, wl^ere George Lantz now lives. This was 
kept by King, famous for his good fare. One of the 
early signs was that of Jacob Beck, on Columl)us street, 
where \\'\u. ( letz now lives. On his sign was a large 
Buck, and willi tlie name of Jacob Beck. 

The F. A. .Shaffer tavern was in early days called 
tlie W'asliington, with a picture of the general on the 
sign. Auntber Wasliington tavern was in Idiornville, 
kept for some time 1)\- Dr. MaA'ue, Ijcfore be became a 
doctor, and settled in Basil. We refer to the father of 
the late Dr. Wash. Alayne. 

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Of PalrficUi County, Ohio. 181> 

Jacob Walters kept tavern some years Avhcre tlie 
Betz house now stands. He called his house the Wil- 
liam Tell, after the famous hero of a Swiss legend. 
There A\as a picture of the famous mvth with drawn 
cross-bow and arrow. Col. Noble's tavern was called 
the l^nion as earlv as 1819. Tt was a log house, but 
weatlierboarded. It burned down in 1832 or '33, and a 
new brick building of two stories was erected in its 
place. This was called the Phoenix, after the fabled 
bird of heathen mythology ; presumably because it had 
risen from the ashes of the old I'nion. This tavern 
was owned by a compau}- — and in about five years it 
was sold to IJarius Tallmadge, and by him greatly im- 
])roved, and the name changed to "Tallmadge House.'' 
Another famous hostelry was where the ]\lithoff now 
stands. Hie sign was ornamented witli the picture 
of a large swan. Col. Sager was one of the famous 
landlords of this inn. There was an old-time tavern 
on the north side of Main street, near the canal, called 
the "Golden Sun," with a picture of that huninary in 
a l)la7e of glorv. 

Another old tavern sign will be remembered by a 
few of our readers. The "f'lack Horse," kept !)}■ .\llen 
House, on East Alain street. The building stood near 
where the fine Ihnninger residence now stands. Xo 
one could go down Main street east and fail to see the 
black horse. House is said to have entertained ( ien. 
Santa Anna on his wav to Washington, incognito, 
after his battle of San Jacinto. 

( )ne of the famous old-time taverns was kept bv 
tlie -Vyes, in Tarlt(^n. and another by Col. .Sager, of 
( )akland. Col. Sager's wife was a Smith, cousin of 
IvoI)ert, of rieasant township. The X\es preser\ed 



140 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

for forty years two autograph letters from Henry Clay, 
who always took his meals at their house. 

The good old names are now out of fashion, and 
only exist in memory, and the modern styles predomi- 
nate. Such as Hotel Martin, The Kirn, The Mithofif. 

The modern hotels excel the old in comfort and 
convenience, but you cannot convince old-timers that 
the good fare and good cheer of the old taverns were 
not the best. 

In the old bar room at Fred Shaffer's more than a 
dozen travelers have been seated and made comfortable, 
and the evening spent in enjoyable conversation. At 
least six lawyers have been known to lodge in one room 
at old-time taverns, and while a game of cards amused 
the players, the others with a single candle prepared 
their cases for the next day. 



FAIRFIELD COUNTY FAIR. 



THE GREAT AGRICULTURAL ATTRACTION OF SOUTHERN 
OHIO. 

CHE first county fair was held in the year 1852, 
There had, some years previous, been an effort 
made to organize a fair, but it did not succeed, 
although some prominent men were at the head of it. 
John T. Brasee, John Reber, Daniel Kutz, Darius 
Tallmadge, John Shaeffer, Isaac Claypool, John Van 
Pearse, Daniel Keller, David Huber, John Gill, James 
W. Pearse, and the Ashbrooks were the leading men in 
the enterprise, and gave it their time freely, and the 
full benefit of their example and influence. 

The site was on what is now known as the Caffee 
addition to Lancaster. Eight acres were fenced off, 
the canal answering for the west side fence. John 
Reber purchased a boat load of lumber in Cleveland to 
build the fence. This lumber he afterwards sold with 
very little loss, and the society did not have much to 
pay- 
John Reber was the first president,Judge John S. 
Brasee the first secretary, and John Shaeffer the first 
treasurer. 

On the second day John T. Brasee delivered a pre- 
pared speech to a large and attentive audience. Capt. 
Joshua Clarke pronounced it the finest speech that he 
had ever heard. Judge Brasee remembers the speech 
and says that it was a fine effort. 

The premiums offered were small, compared with 
those paid now, but they drew a fine exhibit of stock. 
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142 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

Krasee, Reber, D. Kutz, D. Huber, John Gill and Ash- 
brooks were exhibitors of fine stock. The entire re- 
ceipts amounted to $825. This sum paid the prem- 
iums and all expenses. 

James W. Pearse exhibited a saddle horse, ridden 
by his daughter, now Mrs. Matlack, of Lancaster, then 
a bright and handsome young woman. An accident of 
some kind caused her to be thrown from her horse, bui 
she was not injured. 

Tn T853 Mr. Reber purchased the Wright farm. 
and reserving 13 acres for a fair ground, sold the farm 
again at a price that gave him the 13 acres without 
cost to the society. 

On this spot, with many additions, the fair has 
been held for fort\-six years. John T. Ih-asec wrote 
the original constitution, and it was adopted at a meet- 
ing held at Shaeffer's hotel. 

Relicr, D. Kutz, David Huber and Brasee at that 
time were breeders of fine shcirthorn cattle, and Brasce 
of nuiles. 

hVom this small liegiuning referred to, the fair has 
grown to \ast pr(i])oi-ti()ns. The early fairs were noted 
for ver\' large dis])la\s of good horses in all classes. 
.At sexeral fairs tlie number of horse entries was in ex- 
cess of two hundred, and this at a time when trotting, 
as it is now understood, was unk"nown. Relier's sjilen- 
did stud of tlioi-onglilrel Ji.M-ses wa> ;dw,i_\^ a ,L;re;:t 
attraction. 

( )f the outsiders who ne\-er held office in the societ}". 
but who worked for the interests of the fan" t"or weeks 
at a tinn'. Dr. l)a\idson, druggist, is one of the most 
noted. H]". Daxidson for manv \ ears exb.ibited fine 
h«M-.-es, (lro])ping in after Fveber's death. 



148 Of Fairfield County. Ohio. 

The okl-tiniers are nearly all gone, and a new gen- 
eration runs and patronizes our fair. It is still a very 
live institution, and in good hands. Men are at the 
helm who wear the mantle of the pioneers in the work 
with becoming grace and honor. 

In the years 1858 and 1859 John A. Fettus was 
the President, C. AI. L. Wiseman, Secretary, and 
Joseph C. Kinkead Treasurer, there were over 200 
horses shown for premiums in the ring. Among them 
"Old Hoiatoga" and a splendid array of his colts 
from one to four years of age, the best among them 
"Chieftain" owned by Brown of Thonville. Sold as a 
five year old to Sam Crim for $1800. 



FAIRFIELD COUNTY IN THE WEST, 



SOME OF ITS SONS WHO HAVE OBTAINED DISTINCTION 
WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI. 

CHE g-reat West is well sprinkled with Fairfield 
County people. The traveler can scarcely stop 
anywhere without meeting their smiling, 
friendly faces. They greet the visitor from the heart 
and their hosi)itality is unbounded. 

Of those who have become wealthy and attained 
prominent positions and influence in financial circles, 
Andrew Jackson Snyder, of Kansas City, ^^lissouri, is 
the most striking and distinguished figure. His youth 
was one of toil and hardship, but he was honest and in- 
dustrious. Before he had attained his majority, he 
was at work on the farm of the lale Frederick Lamb, 
O'f Walnut township, at ten dollars per month. 

Tiring <'■{ the farm, he started for tli- AVest. and 
fallin;^- in witli a rccnntiii':' officer, lie (.-n'isicd in the 
regular army and served five _\ears. lie was a fine 
s])ecimen of the ])!iysical nri'i, 1:ill and well propor- 



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145 



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to justice. In his official career he accumulated some 
money and conckided to go to Missouri, which he did. 
There he met, wooed, won and married a good woman. 
Kansas City was then attracting the attention of enter- 
prising men and thither he went. He soon became a 
leading dealer in cattle and prominent at the stock 
yards. He prospered and invested in land, stocked it 
with cattle, and soon earned the title of "Cattle King." 
His ranch on the plains was said to contain 45,000 
acres. He became interested in one of the leading 
banking institutions of the city and soon was elected 
its president, a position he still holds. He has long 
been rated a Yer>- wealthy man. Fairfield County has 
sent out few men (if any) who have l)cen as success- 
ful in life as the poor boy of fifty years ago. known as 
Andy Snider of Indian Creel-, Ricliland township. 
He is devoted to his family, has a fine home and lives 
in style becoming to his position and wealth. His 
wife is one of the accomplished and fine looking wo- 
mcu of her adopted city. She is the daughter of 
Noah r.eery and the grand-daughter of John Beery, 
brother of George and Abraham lieery. 

Her father moved to northwest .Missouri many 
years ago. 

Two sons blessed their union, one of whom, a 
fine voung man, died just as he was 1)U(l(ling into man- 
hood. 

The other son is a pro^mising man. He married 
the daughter of General Richard ()gles1)y, the bosom 
friend of Abraham Lincoln and a distinguished ex- 
soldier. 

Fairfield County gave two other men to Missouri 
who achieved distinction, Samuel Reber and John W. 



146 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

Noble. Judge Reber was a son of Valentine Reber, a 
very prominent pioneer, and was born near Royalton, 
Ohio. He received a good education and studied law 
in Lancaster. After admission to the bar he removed 
to St. Louis, Mo. Here he practiced his profession 
with success and closed his career on the Common Pleas 
bench. Judge .Relx'r married a daughter of Gen. Wm. 
J. Reese. He left a widow and a large family of child- 
ren. He was himself a memljcr of a very large family 
of brothers and sisters, all of whom filled honorable 
and respected positions in life. The best known of his 
brothers in this county were Thomas and Henry. Ly- 
man Allen, Wm. L. Clement and Andrew Peters were 
brothers-in-law. Of this large family but two survive, 
Mrs. Huber, of Seneca County and Joseph, of Inde- 
pendence, Mo. 

His brother John was at the time of his death one 
of the wealthiest men in Pickaway County. 

John W. Noble was a son of Col. John Noble, one 
of the pioneers of Lancaster, and for years an honored 
citizen of both Columbus and Cincinnati. His son 
John was born in Lancaster a year or two before the 
Colonel took up his residence in Columbus. We can 
barely claim him as a Lancaster boy, and must divide 
the honors with Columbus. His youth was spent both 
in Columbus and Cincinnati. W^e do not know where 
he studied law or when he settled in St. Louis. This 
is known, however, lie graduated at Miami LJniver- 
■sity and was a classnuite of i 'resident Harrison. The 
acquaintance then formed ri])i'ned into friendship and 
had much lo do with his selection in after years as 
Secretary of the Interior. lie was a very capable 
Caliinet officer, and those who had occasion to meet him 
pronounced h.im a courtly gentleman. He returned 



Of J' airfield Coiculy. Ohio. 147 

to St. Louis and resumed tlie j^ractiee of law. His 
brother. Henry Clay Noble, another Lancaster boy, 
practiced law in Columbus and was for some years a 
partner of Henry Stanbery. 

ENOCH BEERY SEITZ 

luioch r.eery Seitz. srm of I );iniel Scitz, who died 
in this count}' was born near r>erne. l-'ahiield County, 
()lii<i, in tiie year 1841. His j^arcnts were farmers and 
the widow moved from Fairfield to Darke Count}-, 
wliere yonn^' Seitz was brou;^'ht u]). He i^raduaiecl at 
the C)hio \\'esle}'an Universit^- in 1870. 

He was a teacher in the ]ml)lic schools of Creen- 
ville for a number of }'ears. He earl}- dis]~)layed qreat 
aptness for mathematics and devoted his leisure hours 
to soh-ino- the hi<lden nnsteries of numl)ers. He was 
a contributor tO' several magazines devoted to mathe- 
matics, anion;:;- them the Mathematical A'^isitor and 
the Educatic>ual 1'imes, of London. England. His 
oriq-inal in\'esti, Rations astonished the world and he was 
soon classed as one oT the ^qreat matheinaticians of the 
world. He furnished over five hundred model solu- 
tit)ns to the ."school \''isitor. in which he dis])layed qreat 
ini^enuit}- and ability. 

His special l)ranches were "Average an.d Proba- 
bililies."' and in tlicin he was ;!ckn;i\vlcd;.'.ed the su])er- 
ior ci" VM\ uian in ihe whole wia"ld. 

1 le nmked with and ^IockI side In >ide with W ool- 
h.ouie. the niathematical c;iam])icM] of hjigland. He 
was a ])'i-ii ni;'.lhemalician. and wh.cn a mere bo}- as- 
lonish.rd his teachcr> b}- (lis])!a\ im;- an al)ilil}- be} (tnd 
ihrir ci "uprehension. 



148 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

In the year 1880 he was the fifth American to be 
lioncred by IxMiii;: elected a member of the London 
Mathematical Societ}-. 

For some time ])revious to his death he was a 
professor of matlicmatics at the State Normal School 
of Missouri, located at Kirksville. 

This lirilliant _\can,q- man died in the prime of life, 
a;;vd 37 xears, in the \ear 1883. His fame is world 
wide and his worics w ill endure forever. His remains 
were Innded at Greenville, the scene of his early labors 
and lriuni])hs. 

! ir. Williams, oi tin's county, was a threat mathe- 
malician. Init he did not conu- in contact or touch with 
the mathematicians of the Wi)rld. hence his reputation 
is local, wliile the name of his friend is known and 
honored wherever mathematics is tau!,dit throucrhout 
the world. 

riie mother of i 'rof . Seitz was a Beery, a prom- 
inent lamilv in this counly for nearly 100 years. She 
was a dauj^hier of .\braham I'eery, of 1\ush Creek. 



GREENFIELD ACADEMY, 



ONE OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S EARLY EDUCATIONAL INSTI- 
TUTIONS. A FULL LIST OF STUDENTS WHO ATTENDED 
THIS POPULAR SCHOOL. 

yTREENFIELD ACADEMY was the most cele- 
^^ brated and deservedly popular institution of 
^^ learning known to Fairfield County. 

It was founded by Dr. John Williams in the year 
1835, and ran a successful career of eleven years, clos- 
ing in the year 1846. 

Dr. Williams was one of the great scholars and 
educators of the time, and he drew about him and to 
his school many young men who had a thirst for 
learning, and who subsequently filled honorable posi- 
tions in life. 

We give herewith the names of students who at- 
tended Greenfield Academy, alphabetically arranged 
and without regard to the term or years of their attend- 
ance. There is no measure of value for such services 
as Dr. John Williams rendered to the people of this 
county during his useful life. 

STUDENTS OF GREENFIELD 

Albright. Henry. Atwood, John. 

Albright, Jacob. Beck, Geo. W. 

Albright, John. Beery, Geo. W. , who 

Anderson, BoHver. was a lawyer of Up- 

Anderson, S. H. per Sandusky, where 

Arnold, Doctor. he died recently. 

Ashbrook, E. P., who Beery, Simon, who 

is now living at died at Urban a, 

Windsor, Illinois. Ohio. 

Atwater, De W. C. Biddison, A. 
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Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 



Black, Charles. 

Black, Henry. 

Black, John. 

Black, D. S. 

Bookwalter, Rev. Isaac 
H. 

Brasee, John S. , an 
eminent lawyer of 
Lancaster, Ohio. 

Brook, J a m e s, o f 
Greenfield. 

Brundidge, J. H. 

Breck, Samuel. 

Bush, Samuel G. 

Campbell, Jas. 

Carlisle, Jas. B. 

Carlisle, Jefferson. 

Carlisle, Basil W., was 
a prominent citizen of 
this county, filling 
with credit many im- 
portant poistions. 

Carlisle, Jas., died out 
in Arkansas many 
years ago. 

Carnoy, Theo. W. 

Cherry, John. 

Carnes, Wm. 

Carnes, Arthur. 

Carpenter, Doctor 
David, of Chicago. 

Carpenter, H. W. 

Chaney, Oliver P. 

Chaney, Hugh. 

Chaney, James. 

Claypool, Isaac. 

Clemens, Alfred. 

Clement, Jos. W. 

Cole, Rev. Thos. 

Collins, John A. 

Collins, Jesse. 



Coulson, Henry. 

Cunningham, Jno. 

Darnell, of Groveport. 

Davidson, Dr. A. 

Dennison, Nelson W. , 
studied law, married 
Miss Manson, mov- 
ed to Iowa, where he 
died. 

Drake, Rev. Lem. 

Dubble, Henry. 

Ewing, David. 

Ewing, John. 

Ewing, Thos., recently 
killed by an accident 
in New York City. 
He had a distin- 
guished career, was 
Judge of the Supreme 
Court of Kansas, a 
major general, a 
member of Congress, 
and a distinguished 
lawyer. 

Finck, Elias. 

Finkbone, W. H. 

Finnefrock, T. P. 

Flattery, Jonathan. 

Flattery, Josiah. 

Freed, Abraham. Mr. 
Freed, or Prof. 
Freed, was a farmer 
and teacher all his 
life. He was a ripe 
scholar and a suc- 
cessful educator. 

Garaghty, Edw. 

Graybill, Edward, who 
some years since was 
the treasurer of Fair- 
field county. 



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151 



Graybill, Isaac. 

Graybill, Samuel G., 
became Clerk of the 
Court for Shelby 
County, 111. He mar- 
ried a Carlisle. 

Glasscock, Samuel. 

Green, Thomas. 

Greiner, Christian. 

Greiner, Jacob. 

Grubb, John Q. A. 

Harrison, Dixon A. 

Harrison, Jonas. 

Havens, Joseph. 

Hay, Peter. 

Hay, Joseph. 

Hedges, Samuel. 

Huber, George. 

Hendershott, John. 

Hooker, Jared 

Hooker, Richard. 

Hooker, Samuel. 

Homrighouse, L. 

Huber, Horace. 

Hutton, John. 

Hutton, Wm. 

Hite, Geo. 

Ingman, Henry. 

Irvin, John. 

Jenkins, Wm. 

Keller, Simon P. 

Kemerer, Em'l. 

Kistler, Reuben. 

Kerns, Isaac. 

Kreider, E. C. , now 
the postmaster of 
Jacksonville, Illinois. 
Langworthy, O. P. 

Levifis, Ed., Chilli- 
cothe. 

Lefever, H. C. 



Lockart, Thomas, mar- 
ried a sister of E. C. 
Kreider and moved 
to California, where 
he died. 

Lyle, Aaron. 

McCleery, Jas. 

McNeill, Dr. Robt. 

McNeill, Robt. 

McFarland, John. 

Martin, Evi. 

Martin, Samuel 

Miller, Jas. 

Miller, Joab. 

Miller, W. B. 

Miller, John C. 

Moore, Levi. 

Nourse, Jos. G. 

Orman, Henry. 

Pence, David. 

Poorman, Daniel. 

Perry, Horace. 

Perry, O. H. 

Peters, Zebulon. 

Peters, Newton. 

Palmer, D. 

Peters, Wilson, of 
Marion, Ohio. 

Radebaugh, John. 

Renshaw, Jos. 

Roland, Samuel. 

Salter, William. 

Sanderson, St. C. 

Sanderson, Alex. 

Sanderson, Geo. 

Schleich, Newton. 

ShaefYer, Chas .F. 

Shaefifer, Fr. W. 

Shaeflfer, John. 

Shaeffer, Henry. 

Shaef¥er, Dr. A. H. 



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Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 



Shisler, Reuben. 

Shisler, Emanuel. 

Shisler. Abraham. 

Staley. J. J. 

Sites, Geo. L. 

Smith, Amos. 

Sprague, N. H. 

Stage, Napoleon. 

•Stanbury, of Greenfield. 

Sweitzer, John. 

Strunk, Gabriel. 

Talbot, Edward. 

Talbot, Benjamin. 

Tallmadge, Jas., son of 
Darius Tallmadge, 
and brother of T. W. 
Tallmadge, oi Wash- 
ington. He went first 
to California, thence 
to South America, 
where he died. 

Tallman, Douglas. 

Tallman, brother of 
Douglas. 

Tong, H. B. 

Trowbridge, Reese. 

Van Meter, Ezra. 

Van Pearse, John. 

Wagenhals, Dr. Philip 
M. , a once distin- 
guished physician of 
l^ancaster. He died 
in Columbus, O. 

Weakiey. Otho 

Weaver, Samuel. 



Weaver, Solomon. 

White, Thomas. 

Whitehurst, M. C. 

Wickizer, John, stud- 
ied law with H. H. 
Hunter, and moved 
to city of Blooming- 
ton, Illinois, where 
he became Mayor. 

Williams, Alfred, now 
a clerk in State De- 
partment, Washing- 
ton, D. C. The only 
son of Dr. John Wil- 
liams He was at one 
time prosecuting at- 
torney of this county. 
He married Miss Hof- 
fler, niece of H. H. 
Hunter. 

Williams, Willis. 

Williams, James. 

Williamson, Levi. 

Wilson, Ambrose. 

Wright, Silas H., late 
Judge of the Common 
Pleas Court of Fair- 
field County. 

Williams, E. C. 

Wright, Wm. 

Wygum, Geo. J. 

Zink, and 

Zimmerman, supposed 
to be of Lancaster 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Courtright. 

Rev. Gast and Mc- 

Carty. 
Nigh, Elias, was a 

merchant of Lancas- 



ter a few years; he 
then studied law -jnd 
moved to Iront n, 
Ohio. 
Scott, Rev. Wm. 



Of Fairiield County, Ohio. 



153 



'Click, Elias. 
Wilson, Thos. A. 
Hamilton, Geo. 
Hunter, James. 
Flattery, Lucas. 
Coleman, Michael. 
Courtright, Cyrus. 
Sharrk, Wm. 
Finkbone, Henry. 
Beall, Rev. Isaac. 
Pugh, Jas. 
Lewis, E. E. 
Forgay, Jas. 
Collins, Enoch. 
Tomlinson, Aaron. 
Oren, Jesse. 
Peters, Jas. W. 
lies, Jacob. 
Flattery, Wm. S. 
Graham, Benj. R. 
Huntwork, Jacob. 
Twigg, John F. 
Ford, John T. 
Griffith, Jos. 
Nisley, A. 
Fling, Geo. 
Jones, David. 
Culp, Lewis. 
McNeill, Corbin. 
Meyers, Lewis. 
Meason, Isaac. 
Foster, F. A., Jr. 
Hardy. Thos. E. 
Pratt, F. H. 
Havens, Jos. M. 
Schneider, John. 
Kerns, Abner. 
Griffith, David. 
Griffith, James 
Beery, Samuel S. 
Koontz, S. C. 



Beach, Thos. 

Reedy, Conrad. 

Cox, John. 

Ricketts, Jesse. 

Julian, L. F. 

Benton, O. 

Buchanan, Wilson. 

Crawford, of Crawford 
county, O. 

Nigh, Jared. 

Stripe, Jacob. 

Soliday, John; he stud- 
ied medicine and en- 
listed in the Union 
army; died near Sa- 
vannah , Ga. 

Albright. Geo. 

Hoshor, W. 

Runner, F. A. 

Harmon, John. 

Young, Wm. 

Peters, Henry W. 

Paul, Truman E. 

Meason, Elijah. 

Seeds, James. 

Poorman, Henry H. 

Snively, Wm. J. 

Collins. Philemon. 

Fairchild, Wm. W. 

Connell, Col. John M., 
studied law and lived 
most of his life in 
Lancaster; he was the 
first Colonel of the 
17th Ohio, Union 
army; he was also a 
member of »^he Ohio 
State Senate. 

Shaw, Virgil E. 

Gierhart, Melvin. 

Ebright, Enoch. 



154 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

Peters, Sam G. Welsheinier, Phil. 

Black, Wm. H. Reber, Henry, of Pick- 
Benadum, Aaron. away. 

Allen, Theodore. Henderson, David. 

Carr, Richard. Miller, Jonathan. 

Newkirk, Michael. Daugherty, Wni. 

Havens, Isaac B. Baughman, Oliver. 

Walters, Jacob M. Tallman, LaFayette. 

Rutherford, C. W. Rockey, Esq. L. L. 
Schneider, Henry. 

The little red brick schoo'l house, known as Green- 
field .\cadeniy, was torn down a few years since and a 
frame dwelling erected in its place. The old building 
was about five miles distant from Lancaster, on the 
Carroll pike, and just a few yards this side of the Pres- 
byterian church in Greenfield township. Of the boys 
whose names have been recorded, but few remain. 
Death has claimed the large majority of them. Dr. 
David Carpenter, Dr. H. W. Carpenter, Judge Bra- 
see, Oliver P. Chaney, E. C. Kreider, are well known 
men. E. P. Ashbrook, now more than four score, 
is living in Illinois. Isaac Claypool is also one of 
the living, as is L. L. Rockey, of Liberty. David 
Pence and Samuel H. Anderson are well known 
fartners of Pleasant township. 

There is a tradition that James G. Blaine attended 
Greenfield Academy, but it is a mistake. Mr. Blaine, 
while on the car in full view of the old brick acad- 
emy, said to the writer, " I did not attend the school of 
Dr. Williams, I was only a visitor in Lancaster in 
1840." 



EARLY PEDAGOGUES. 



SOME EARLY AND WORTHY TEACHERS OF FAIRFIELD 
COUNTY. 

TTBE will name a few teachers of old time wliO' 
A A I were good scholars, especially in certain 
^^^ lines, and many of them taught fairly welL 
The schools of the period we refer to were taught in 
log school houses, benches without backs, with writ- 
ing desk along the wall; many of the houses were 
poorly heated and destitute of every comfort or con- 
venience. The scholars ranged from six years up to 
stalwart men and women of about twenty-one years. 
Many of them were rude and unruly and went to 
school for fun. The teacher who kept good order 
was rare and he had his hands full. The rod, a good 
hickory, was relied upon by the teacher. In many 
cases boys were flogged unmercifully — they deserved 
it. and parents seldom interfered. Indeed, it was cus- 
tomary for fathers to tell their boys, if your are 
whipped at school and I hear of it you will get an- 
other at home.'' 

There was one well authenticated case when the 
teacher was told that he could never manage the 
school and the names of the rowdy boys were given to 
him. He procured a few good hickory withes and on 
the first day of school he met the boys at the door, ask- 
ing each his name. He severely flogged each one and 
told them that that was the way he commenced, and if 
necessary he would keep it up. The parents did not 
complain and he conducted the school without any 
trouble. The boys who received the flogging had 
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156 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

broken up two or three schools. Then schools were 
a very poor place to study, but if the teacher had a fair 
chance, good places to get instruction, and the ambi- 
tious boy thirsting for learning fared very well in spite 
of his surroundings. Occasionally a teacher could be 
found unworthy of the name. A school was once 
taught in Pleasant township by one of this class. A 
visitor noticed a Latin book on his desk and inquired if 
he taught Latin. He replied in the negative and his 
attention was called to the book. He then remarked 
that one of his scholars had used that book for his 
reading lesson since he came to the school — and he 
thought the language was rather strange. On another 
occasion one of his scholars came to him to explain 
a page of his arithmetic devoted to bookkeeping. The 
teacher told him that he could not explain the matter 
as it referred to surveying. We are pleased to know 
that there were not many such teachers, even among 
the old-timers. To the list of old teachers we must 
add the names of Thomas Ewing and Hocking H. 
Hunter — their teaching was only temporary. One 
of the greatest liberties taken with the teacher by the 
scholars, and tolerated, and in many cases encouraged 
and promoted by the parents, was the barring out of 
the master at Christmas time, if he refused to treat the 
school. Two or three bushels of apples were generally 
more than sufficient to satisfy their wants. If the 
teacher refused — and they often did — the door was 
barred, the windows defended and the master kept 
out until he relented, if it required a whole week. This 
custom was universal 60 years ago — all old men re- 
member it. 

In the Reber district, south of Royalton, one of the 
old fashioned Irishmen referred to previously, was bar- 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 157 

red out. He came to the school house and demanded 
entrance. The reply was, treat and you can come in. 
Faith and I will, but it will be meself, he replied, and 
wended his way to Royalton and began to get quite 
tipsy. This was kept up for a day or two. On one oc- 
casion he climbed to the roof and placed a board over 
th.c chimncv in order to smoke the boys out. A few 
of the parents whO' were near got upon th.e roof, took 
the old fellow by the heels, swung him clear of the 
building and threatened to drop him to the ground if 
he did not agree to treat. 

This was one of the crude things peculiar tO' pio- 
neer times — what was fun to them would be called 
rough and vulgar now. 

One of the greatest features of the old-time schools 
was the spelling match, one school against another, or 
the h.alf of one school against the other half. These 
matches created great excitement and filled the houses. 
There were numerous scholars in a township who could 
spell every word in \\\"bster's American spelling book. 

I'he father of James Buclianan, of I'asil, was one 
of tl-ic oldest teachers of this county, and a worthy 
man. Tlie father of Thomas Tugh was a well kno'wn 
teacher and l-.rought up two of his sons to the same 
profession. 

Isaac Kerns, more recently a commissioner of this 
count \-, was a teacher for many years. 

All have passed to the great l^eyond and many 
of them have been forgotten. Would that the names 
of all could be rescued from oblivion and placed upon 
a talilet of enduring bronze, that the children of this 
and succeeding generations might at least read the 
names of those who in times past taught the young 
idea of their forefathers how to shoot. 



158 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

The Centennial History gives a very full account 
O'f Lancaster teachers. 

The schools of pioneer days were not numerous. 
Previous to 1830, when our common school system was 
adopted by the Ohio legislature, all schools depended 
upon private subscription. A teacher was selected and 
employed and the parents of each scholar paid his or 
their proportion of the expense. Parents too poor to 
pay tuition had to be content with sucli instruction as 
they could give their children at home, and in most 
cases this was very limited. 

In this day of good schools and thorough teach- 
ing it is a mistake to suppose that the early schools, 
few as they were, were without merit and ability on the 
part of the teachers. 

Thomas Ewing bears wholesome and worthy tes- 
timony to the ability and scholarship of his first teach- 
er in those early days — an Irishman whom he grateful- 
ly remembered. 

There were many teachers in Ohio and Fairfield 
County in the early days who came from Ireland or 
were sons of Irish parents. They were good teachers 
and good scholars — especially were they good in 
grammar and mathematics. But unfortunately, many 
of them were intemperate and rather dissolute in their 
habits : often bachelors who tramped from one neigh- 
borhood to another — and like the old minstrel immor- 
tali;^ed b\- Walter Scott, welcome wherever they hap- 
pened to sto]) or tarry to teach a school. An Irish- 
man named Welsh was an early teacher of th.is class 
and he was a great favorite. 

C )ne of the first men to teach school in this county 
was John Goldthwait. The school was in the Mc- 
Cleery district in Greenfield township. Goldthwait 



Of Fairfield Cpimty, Ohio. 159 

came from Massachusetts, having been born in the 
city of Springfield. He came to this county from 
Athens, where he had taught in the year 1801. He 
died near New Salem in the year 1829. He was a 
good man and upon his modest tombstone is inscribed 
his hope of immortality. He was a lover of fruit and 
the people of Fairfield County owe him a debt of 
gratitude on that score. He established a nursery 
and brought from Marietta the scions of Golden Pip- 
pen, Newtown Pippin, Seek-no-Farther, Rhode Island 
Greening, Roxbury Russet, American Golden Russet 
or Pearmain and that rare apple, the Vanderver. He 
planted the first orchard in the county on the old 
Levering farm near the camp ground. 

Peter McMullen was one of the early teachers, a 
very successful one and a good scholar. 

New England, Maryland, New York and Virginia 
gave to Fairfield County several teachers of the class 
referred to. 

John T. Brasee and Salmon Shaw were able teach- 
ers, but better educated than the class referred to. 

James Allen, of Maryland, came to this country at 
a very early day and settled in Walnut township. He 
was a good common school teacher, and beloved and re- 
membered by his pupils. 

Simon Ortman was another old-time teacher. He 
also came to Walnut township from Maryland. 

Tosiah Smith came from Connecticut and for sev- 
eral years taught school. Late in life he was a promi- 
nent citizen of Hardin County. 

Father Monroe was a good teacher of the early 
period of the common schools. He came from New 
England. One of his last schools was taught in Bre- 
men. 



160 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

A man named Brent taught school for years in the 
neighborhood of Pleasantville. He came from Win- 
chester, Va. A brother of his was cashier of the Bank 
of the Valley oi Virginia. Brent was dissipated, but 
withal a good teacher. 

Dr. Simon Hyde was one of the early teachers 
and the best scholar at that time in the county. He 
came from Connecticut. 

Father r.ryan. long a resident of Pleasantville, 
was an Irishman, a fair scholar and a good teacher. 
He was the grandfather of Dr. Gilliam, the eminefit 
surgeon of Columbus, and great-grandfather of Attor- 
ney Gilliam of this city. 

We had one old-time teacher who was on his last 
legs when he came to the county. He was competent, 
but dissipated. He was tolerated, but in time could 
not procure a regular school. He opened one on his 
own account for boys. On one occasion he had a spell- 
ing class on the floor and he remarked. "Boys, I am 
going to pronounce a word (of course the word was 
such as to excite their risibilities) and if any of you 

laugh I will whip you like h ." Of course they all 

laughed immoderately, but no one was whipped, for the 
teacher joined in the merriment. Doubtless there are 
men still living who attended his school. 

A witty Irishman, named Skenmore, taught 
school in I'erne township in the year 1813, and was 
called a very good teacher. John May and a Mr. 
J. Addison had previously taught there. This was 
in the Carpenter or Koontz district. 

Henry Camp taught a German school in Pleas- 
ant township and Abraham Winters taught one in 
English, both prior to 1810. 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 161 

John Griffith and John Grantham taught school 
in the Murphy district prior to 1830, and as early as 
1824, in Walnut township. Richard Clarke was one 
of the early teachers of Madison township. 

The late John Crook states that John Addison 
taught in the Koontz, or Prindle district in the year 
1809. He was a good natured man and was liked by 
his scholars. A Mr. Burrows and Hocking H. Hunter 
afterwards taught in the same district, and in later 
years a beloved brother of the writer, long since 
dead, William Wirt Wiseman. 

Warren Case and his sister, Sarah, taught school 
in Royalton as early as 1810, and Henry Calhoun in 
1812. 

In addition to James Allen, previously mentioned, 
Jesse Smith, was a very prominent early teacher in 
Walnut township. A. Cole and W. H. Coley were 
early teachers in Hocking township. 

Bartholomew Foley and Thomas Paden were 
teachers in 1828, in the Koontz school house in Berne 
township. Paden was afterwards a merchant in New 
Salem. He married a Miss Frey, of Rushcreek town- 
ship. 

James Hunter, uncle of the late Andrew Hunter, 
was an early teacher in Hocking township and was 
one of the first to teach a school in Lancaster. 

A Mr. Watsbaugh and a Mr. Irvin were very 
early teachers in Pleasant township, near the Trimble 
farm. Eli Ashbrook, of Illinois, in his young days was 
a good teacher in Pleasant. 

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162 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

Thomas MeGec, Thomas Aloore and John Young 
were early teachers in the Rarr district, Amanda town- 
ship, also John Cunnin.q-ham. 

Moses Stutson and Solomon Grover were early 
teachers in the Landis district of Madison township. 

Samuel Shaw was an old-time teacher of Liberty 
township. He was a £>-iant and when bad boys fell into 
his hands they trembled. Many teachers were cowed 
and compelled to g'ive up their schools. Not so with 
Samuel Shaw. He was a match for the stoutest boy 
or the largest school. 

Dr. Bryson, of Millersport, and the late Dr. 
Aldred, of Carroll, were competent and successful 
teachers in their younger days. The wife of Dr. Bry- 
son was an Aldred. The first wife of Dr. Aldred was 
a Crawford, a relative of tne late Jacob Van Meter 
Crawford, of Berne township. 

Abraham Winters, who taught school as early as 
1810, lived on Pleasant Run, northwest of the Taylor 
Ruber farm. He came early from Rockingham Coun- 
ty, Virginia. He reared two daughters who were once 
belles of the township. The oldest married Col. Val- 
entine Cupp, who, while gallantly leading his regiment, 
was fatally wounded at Chickamauga. His wife is also 
dead. The other daughter, Margaret, married Lieu- 
tenant Lafayette Pickering. Pickering has long been 
dead, but the once handsome girl is still living. Mar- 
garet Winters lived in the days when horseback riding 
was popular, as well as a necessity. She was a daring 
and accomi)lished ecjuestrienne and captured more than 
one prize at the County h^air. 

We will name a few good teachers who taught in 
and about Rushville after the time of Simon Hyde, 
the greatest scholar of his time. John W. Fauble was 



Of Fairfield Couuty, Ohio. 163 

one of them. He afterwards married a daughter of 
Rev. James Quinn, and became himself a Methodist 
preacher of the Ohio conference. 

Isaiah Bell, born and raised on Pleasant Run, was 
a teacher for some years and then entered the Ohio 
conference as a popular preacher. 

John Mason Dick, grandfather of Rev. Dick, of 
the Ohio conference, was one of the early teachers. 

Robert J. Black taught school fifty years ago, or 
about that time, in Rushville. He resides upon his 
farm in Rushcreek and is now a cultivator of and an 
authority on fruit. 

Rev. Anderson, pastor of the Presbyterian church 
of West Rushville, was for some years the teacher of 
a popular select school. 

Wm. Coulson, after his failure as a merchant, was 
a good teacher. He lived to a good old age, passing his 
ninetieth year. 

1 he venerable David Pence, grandson of Emanuel 
Ruffner, in his early days, was a successful teacher. 
His only daughter is the wife of Joseph S. Sites, of 
this city. He is a distinguished member of one of the 
large and distinguished pioneer families of this county. 

Most of the school houses in which the forego- 
ing pioneers taught were built of round logs 
chinked and daubed and a single log cut out of sufifi- 
cient width for windows. The fire places m many in- 
stances were as wide as one end of the building, and 
huge logs used for fuel. 

The seats were made of slabs with round legs at 
each end and destitute of backs. The schools were all 
taught on contracts signed by each patron, agreeing 
to pay a stated price for each pupil. 



164 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

In one instance a public-spirited citizen, father of 
Broad Cole, built a school house and employed Abra- 
ham Cole to teach the school at eight dollars per month 
and invited his neighbors to send their children and 
pay pro rata share or not, as they chose or were able. 
There were no special school hours then. The teacher 
was there at daylight and had a good fire ready to 
receive his pupils, make them comfortable and go to 
work. There were no gold or steel pens in those days ; 
all were made with pen-knife of goosequills by the 
teacher. Fancy a teacher at that interminable task 
now. 

As stated above, the early school houses had huge 
fire places, some as wide as the building, and in one 
case, and perhaps others, the back logs — children rais- 
ed in our modern home never saw a back log — were 
drawn in by horses, ropes being run through the 
cracks between logs. 

All middle age men will remember the ten plate 
stove used to warm school houses and in universal use, 
with big letters on the side, "Made by John Moore, 
Mary Ann Furnace." This furnace and foundry was 
located in Licking County, on the Licking river, a 
few miles from Newark, east. Moore, the proprietor, 
was a famous man, for is it not fame to be known to 
thousands of school children? He was the father of 
Mrs. Judge Silas H. Wright, long a resident of Lan- 
caster, now of Washington. 

This same stove once adorned and warmed the 
country and village stores and many farm houses. 
Many readers of this sketch will be reminded of a dear 
old friend. A friend that ^ave them comfort and never 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 165 

boasted of it. A friend around which the scholars 
gathered at noon time of cold days, chatted and ate 
their lunch. But alas, the stove has gone and others 
have taken its place, and saddest of all, the scholars, 
most of them, are gone and others have taken their 
place. 



PIONEER PREACHERS 



OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH WHO WERE 
FAMOUS IN FAIRFIELD COUNTY 

no set of early pioneers are more entitled to re- 
membrance in these sketches than the self-sac- 
rificing traveling Methodist preachers of the 
early days. Many of them were without much edu- 
cation to speak of, but they were earnest, pious, God- 
fearing men. They were plain men. and dressed in 
clothing intended for service and not for show, made 
upon a uniform pattern, round cutaways, liishop As- 
bury's suit was made of homemade cloth. In one case, 
cloth and suit were both made by a lady friend and 
pr-isented to him. They traveled horseback, fording 
creeks and swimming rivers. In many cases it re- 
quired' four weeks to make the rounds of the circuit, 
and often preaching in some cabin every night. On 
such circuits the jieople came ten and fifteen miles to 
attend the service. This was especially the case on 
Sunday. They were cheerful men, happy men and 
good conversationalists, and they were received with 
open hand wherever they stopped. Happy the family 
so highly favored. The parents rejoiced for the op- 
portunity to converse and for the influence for good 
the visit of the preacher would have upon the lives 
of their children. 

Senator Ewing understood this when he gave a 
thousand dollars in his will to Catholic priests, as a 
slight evidence of his regard for the early priests, who 
(166) 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 167 

made his home their home, and assisted him, as he ex- 
pressed it, in raising his boys. The hearty reception 
given the preacher was not confined to Methodists. — 
Presbyterians and Baptists gave them hearty welcome. 
This is acknowledged by Bishop Asbury in his journal. 

The first pioneers to preach in this county, and 
have charge of a circuit, were Jesse Stoneman and 
James Ouinn. They both lived to a great age and their 
memory is still cherished. Stoneman, after closing 
his career as a preacher, settled on a farm in Perry 
county. He, with his family, is buried at Thornville. 

James Ouinn preached for nearly forty years, in 
this and adjoining counties, and closed his career in 
Highland County. He was buried near Hillsboro, 
Ohio. He has several relatives in this county, or 
more proi)erly his wife, who was a daughter of Ed- 
ward Teal. 

James Axlcy ]ireached in this county in 1805. I^ 
was a "rough diamond" and was kept on the frontier 
all of his life. Being at Chillicothe, he, with another 
minister, were entertained by Governor Tiffin, a Meth- 
odist. .\ part of the evening meal was stewed chicken. 
— Axley took his portion in his fingers and stripped 
the bones and tlieu threw them to a dog sitting on 
the car])et near him. This was j^robablv the first car- 
pet he had ever seen in a dining room. On his way 
to Mississippi Territory, to which he had been as- 
signed, he jM-cached in Nashville. The minister there 
was afraid he would make a break and gave him a 
word of caution. .Soon after commencing his dis- 
ci nu'sc a gentleman entered, the minister whispered, 
" That is General Jackson." Axley exclaimed : " Who 
cares for General Jackson ! He will go to hell as quick 
as anybody else if he does not repent." After the close 



168 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

of the services Jackson came forward, took him by 
the hand, and thanked him for his frankness and fear- 
lessness. 

James B. Findlay preached here in 1811, and he 
was on this district as late as 1842. He was a distin- 
guished preacher of his time. He, with Rev. Jacob 
Hooper, who lived near New Salem, were mission- 
aries to the Wyandot Indians, at Sandusky, in 1821. 
The city of Findlay is named for one of his family. 

James Gilruth was a famous preacher of early 
days. He was in this county in 1823. He was a man 
of great strength and fought the rowdies at camp 
meetings. He, as late as 1842, after the close of his 
ministry, moved to Davenport, Iowa, where his daugh- 
ter opened a seminary. The distinguished Dr. Ky- 
nett, who died a few days since in Philadelphia, mar- 
ried one of his daughters. 

Charles Waddle from 181 4 to 1834 was a very 
distinguished preacher. People came long distances 
to hear him at camp meeting, and the name of Charles 
Waddle, was famous in a large region. He fell from 
grace and left the church. The writer saw him a few 
years since in Pleasantville, where he lived a short 
time with his son, a broken down, sorrowful looking 
old man, unknown and unhonored in a region where 
his eloquence had once delighted thousands 

Jacob Young was a distinguished preacher in this 
county in 1820, and about the year 1841 he closed 
his ministry here. He was a good man and his life 
was an inspiration. His oldest son. Wheeler Young, 
is the present sheriff of Franklin County, Ohio. 

Michael Ellis was an earnest, faithful and pious 
preacher, as early as 1817. Thomas Batton, of the 
Boys' Industrial School, married a niece of his. 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 169 

Leroy Swonnstedt was a somewhat famous 
preacher in this county in 1825. He was for many 
years manager of the Methodist Book Concern at Cin- 
cinnati. 

James Laws was here as early as 1826. His oldest 
son was born in Lancaster. His sons were for many 
years and still are commission merchants of Cincinnati. 

Henry S. Fernandes was a preacher in this county 
in 1829. He was in charge of the church at Athens 
in 1837, when the great revival of that year brought 
many students into the church, among them Rev. 
Joseph M. Trimble. He spent his old age in Rush- 
ville, and made a very modest living selling goods. 

In 1830 one of the very distinguished and elo- 
quent preachers was Samuel Hamilton. 

Thomas A. Morris, afterwards bishop, preached 
in Lancaster one year (1820). Joseph M. Trimble, 
W. H. Sutherland, R. S. Foster, (now a bishop), M. 
Dustin, Colonel G. Moody and S. M. Merrill (now a 
bishop) were distinguished and eloquent Lancaster 
divines in their prime. Tallmadge Foster, son of the 
bishop, is an attorney of Cincinnati. 

Rev. Joseph Carper was once a distinguished 
preacher of this region. He was a man of intellect, 
fine presence and a splendid speaker. He died thirty 
or more years since in Perry County, Ohio. His son, 
Homer Carper, was for many years a distinguished 
lawyer of Delaware, Ohio. Homer once met a gen- 
tleman of Athens, who told him that if he would go to 
Athens he could spend a month or two in that county 
and stop every night with a friend and admirer of 
his father. Rev. Joseph Carper officiated at the wed- 
ding of the writer, 45 years ago. 



170 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

David Young was another good man, who 
preached as early as 1826. His home was in Zanes- 
ville. He married the widow of John Mclntire, fotm- 
dei of Zanesville, and son-in-law of Ebenezer Zane, 
founder of Lancaster, Ohio. 

Moses A. Milligen was a preacher here as late 
as 1 84 1. His brother, Lamsden P. Milligen of Indi- 
ana, was a Knight of the Golden Circle, tried and 
convicted of treason, and sent to the Ohio peniten- 
tiary. The kind heart of Lincoln consented to his 
liberation. The writer met him in Huntington, Indi- 
ana, a few years since. He referred to Ohio and his 
early life there and spoke of his brother,.Rev. Milligen. 

The famous Peter Cartwright preached at the 
early camp meetings in this county. He was a " rough 
diamond," but possessed many good qualities as a 
pioneer preacher. He moved late in life to Illinois 
and settled near Springfield. His name is immortal, 
for it will be forever associated with Abraham Lin- 
coln. In 1847 he was the Democratic candidate for 
Congress, and Abraham Lincoln was his opponent 
and defeated him. 

His aged widow met with a singular death. She 
was attending a quarterly meeting. During the gen- 
eral class, she arose and gave her testimony in a clear 
but impassioned style, and after she had brought the 
people to a high state of excitement by her eloquence 
and zeal, she closed by saying, " I am waiting for the 
chariot," and immediately sank into her seat a corpse. 
The preacher in charge arose and immediately ex- 
claimed, " The chariot has come." Hay tells this in 
his life of Lincoln, and it is corroborated by a min- 
ister still living, who was present at the time. 



EARLY SPORTS 



AND AMUSEMENTS OF THE PIONEERS OF FAIRFIELD 
COUNTY. 

nOTWITHSTANDING the many and trying pri- 
vations of the pioneers, they were not destitute 
of amusements — not the cultured lecture or 
refined opera, but healthful and satisfying. It is 
doubtful if there is any community a happier people 
than were the first settlers of this country. 

Men's amusements were rude and mostly in the 
open air. Neighbors were brought closer together, 
communities mingled and there was a hearty inter- 
change of hospitality. 

Hunting with the rifle was indulged in by all 
classes, both to obtain game for food and for amuse- 
ment. There were many famous hunters and a poor 
shot was the exception. Thomas Cherry killed fifty 
deer in one winter, one bear and other game. 

William Murphey, in his early years, killed 63 
wolves and a panther. He also killed with his rifle, 
or his dogs, raccoons, foxes and wild cats to the num- 
ber of 600. For many years he was a dealer in pel- 
tries. 

Another method of amusement, common to every 
neighborhood, was the shooting match, or target 
shooting. A prize or prizes were offered for the best 
shot, or one set of half a dozen or more would shoot 
against the same number for the prize, which was a 
deer, steer, or more frequently turkeys. The contest 
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172 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

would last, sometimes, an entire day, and always half 
a day. Christmas was always a favorite day for a 
shooting match, and sometimes on election day. The 
contest was one of great interest for the best off-hand 
shots and all the neighborhood would be on hand. 
This amusement continued up to within the memory 
of men now living. The expert squirrel hunters loved 
the match. The amusement which laid in the shade 
all other forms was the fox hunt. The hunters, 
mounted on trained horses, following a pack of fifteen 
or twenty hounds, in full cry, over hill and dale, re- 
gardless of fences or other obstructions, the fox oc- 
casionally in sight, the hounds always, and their music 
reverberating from hill to hill. Abraham Applegate 
and Major Cox used to say that the most glorious 
music in the world was made by a pack of fox hounds, 
•of a frosty morning in October, in full cry. Apple- 
gate was so much of an enthusiast upon this subject 
that he was anxious to visit England for the sole pur- 
pose of seeing and hearing a pack of thoroughly 
trained hounds in an open country, in full cry. He 
knew the voices of his dogs, and could tell whether 
old Bet or Spot was in the lead. Two of the most 
noted fox hunters of the early period were William 
Murphey, then of Walnut township, and Samuel Gray- 
bill of Greenfield. Both were grand old hunters and 
grand old men. Both could set a horse when 80 
years of age with the best of them, and remain in the 
saddle to the end of the chase. Mr. William Murphey 
kept a kennel of hounds as late as to be within the 
memory of the writer. They were somewhat trouble- 
some and expensive. Their principal food was mush. 
Trouble and expense was not counted by such sports- 
men as William Murphey. Of later years Major Cox, 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 173- 

Abraham V. Applegate and Dr. A. Davidson were 
noted fox hunters and often followed the hounds. A 
pack of hounds, in full cry, would stir the blood of 
Dr. Davidson. — George Fetters is about the only lover 
of this fine sport left. He keeps a hound or two to 
remind him of the days that are gone. 

The writer remembers what was called a circle 
hunt in the year 1848 in Pleasant township. The lines 
of men were about four miles square, all in command 
of Colonel Thomas Duncan. At the sound of his horn 
the lines moved to the center and met near C. Rugh's. 
Three foxes were gathered in, one of which got away. 
It was a jolly day, enjoyed by hundreds of excited 
people. Labor was turned into amusement. Log roll- 
ings, house and barn raisings and corn huskings, even 
the wheat harvest ; all contributed to the general fund 
of amusement. Strong men tested the strength of 
each other and sometimes their tempers. 

Wheat was cut with the sickle or hook, as the cra- 
dle and machinery were then unknown. 

A gang of men, 10 or 15, went into the field with 
their hooks, cut through a land about three feet wide 
and bound the sheaves on the way back. Fifteen men 
would cut about what is now done with a binder in one 
day. The owner of the field generally tried to get 
the best reaper to lead the field, as it was called, and 
sometimes he was paid extra. But woe to the leader 
if it were found out — his hide would be the forfeit, 
as they called it. Taking his hide meant laying him 
in the shade. 

Isaac Wilson, late of Greenfield, but in early life, 
of Richland township, was a great leader, one of the 
best men with a sickle in those days. He was best in 



174 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

many things. He was a mighty man, and he who 
insulted him did it at his peril. 

Horse racing in the early days was very popular, 
though it was not introduced to any extent until thor- 
oughbred and blooded horses came to the state. 

Each neighborhood had scrub horses to run from 
lOO to 300 yards. As early as the thirties, Chancy 
Rickets of Pickerington, then Jacksonville, owned 
som.e good horses and that point was somewhat 
famed for this amusement. 

About 1838, Benjamin Yontz came out to this 
county from Maryland and brought with him some 
well bred horses. Cupbearer and others. He had a 
fine race track built just south of New Salem and kept 
it up for some years. 

The pioneers were a hardy race and it is safe to 
conclude that the outdoor work and outdoor sports 
had much to do with it. 

The people of Europe, especially of the continent, 
have plenty of outdoor amusements, and this may be 
one reason for their content and apparent happiness 
under conditions to which Americans would not sub- 
mit. 

The writer is old enough to remember O'ne old- 
fashioned fox hunt and confesses to a weakness for 
the music and excitement of the chase. A fox at full 
speed in the distance, his long brush in line with his 
back and nose, fifteen or twenty hounds, many of 
them handsome, stretched .out for two hundred yards, 
running at full speed, their noses to the ground, all 
in full cry, but each with a different note. Many 
men well mounted, their horses going at full speed, 
and the best trained clearing fences, jumping ditches, 
the voices of the riders, shouting and calling out names 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 176 

of favorite dogs. I hear old Spot, she's in the lead 
now, old Bet leads the pack and so on, for they all 
know their dogs. Sometimes the riders were left far 
behind, but the music and the cry of the leader could 
be heard afar off. 

Who would not have enjoyed such a scene with 
old Billy Murphy as leader ? And his smile of triumph 
when, in at the death, he found that his favorite dog 
had captured the prize. 

Major Cox used to say that the man who did not 
love the music of the hounds had no music in his soul. 



REMINISCENCES 



OF SEVERAL FAMILIES PROMINENT IN THE EARLY 
HISTORY OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY. 

" Old friends are the best friends. " 

"Sing me a song of the earl}' days." — Riley. 

CHE early settlers of Fairfield County, then in- 
cluding Perry and Licking Counties, were a 
hardy race of men and women. People of large 
frame, strong and active. Brainy men, and intelli- 
gent for their opportunities, and usually possessing 
rare good common sense. 

In brief sketches it will not be possible to even 
name all worthy to be remembered ; we can only select 
a representative type here and there of the long list 
of worthy men. The great majority of the people of 
this county are better educated than the people of 60 
years ago, and have read more books and light liter- 
ature, but in strength of character and strong intellect, 
they are not superior, if, indeed, equal. The men of 
the early days read the Bible, Milton's Paradise Lost, 
Homer's lUiad, and a few other books of like charac- 
ter, and they read them well — they thoroughly di- 
gested their contents. A few such books are worth 
more than a whole library of the present day fiction. 

Rev. Foster was the first Lutheran preacher to 
preach in Lancaster. He lived in Thorn township, 
now in Perry County. He settled there at a very early 
day with his six stalwart sons and gave each a farm. 
His son Andrew married a sister of the late Thomas 
Anderson, of Pleasant township. His son Samuel 
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Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 177 

married a daughter of Jacob Graybill, and lived all of 
his life near Lancaster. He was a well known char- 
acter to all old citizens. He was the father of the 
late Col. Sam Foster, of Columbus, and Geo. W. Fos- 
ter, of Cincinnati ; also of the late Mrs. Alvah Perry. 

Rev. Geo. DeBolt was the first Baptist preacher to 
preach in Lancaster. He settled in Walnut township 
prior to 1806, being one of the first settlers. He was 
a "hard shell" preacher of the most pronounced type. 
A good speaker and an intelligent man. But he could 
not deliver a discourse without severely berating other 
denominations. Sixty years ago, yes, 50 years, a weed 
known as dogfennel was the curse of the country. 
Every lane and byway and the public road was full of 
it, and every common white with its bloom in the 
season. During a revival season at the Methodist 
church in New Salem DeBolt preached to his congre- 
gation at Union Chapel. He called their attention to 
the revival services and warned them that if not more 
faithful and active in their religious life the Methodists 
and dogfennel would take the country. 

He raised a large family, all of whom filled a re- 
spectable and useful position in life. One of his sons, 
Reason DeBolt, studied law, married a daughter of 
the late Wm. McCleery, of Greenfield township, and 
moved to Trenton, Missouri. He rose to some emi- 
nence. He was a captain in the civil war, and with 
Gen. Prentiss, was captured at Shiloh and taken to 
Libby prison. Returning to Missouri, he was elected 
a member of congress from that state. Reason was 
one of the first schoolmates of the writer. 

Edward Teal was one of the early settlers of this 
county, and in many ways was a remarkable man. 

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178 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

He came from Maryland, and first settled on Pleasant 
Run, near where Amos Webb now lives. Ir his cabin, 
or near it, at this place, the first class of Methodists in 
this county was formed. 

Teal afterwards moved to what has since been 
known as the Ashbrook farm, now owned by the heirs 
of H. G. Miller. On this farm he and his family are 
buried. Bishop Asbury visited Teal in 1803, and re- 
cords in his journal that Teal owned 1200 acres of as 
good land as could be found in the country. 

A daughter of Mr. Teal married Rev. James Ouinn, 
the first man to preach m this county, in the year 1799. 
The Teals were at one time very prominent people, 
but death has claimed most of them. Perry Teal, 
a grandson, and Mrs. lownsend Reed, a granddaugh- 
ter, are about the only ones left of the old stock. 

Of the many distinguished men who honored 
Greenfield township by their residence there, one of 
the most .striking figures was Walter McFarland. 

He came to the township as early as 1798, and en- 
tered at once upon a long, industrious and honorable 
life. Walter McFarland was over six feet in height, 
well formed and well proportioned. He was a man 
of great strength and activity, and renowned for his 
herculean feats. No man could match him at the end 
of a hand-spike. No man could carry a timber of the 
weight he could lift and walk off with, with ease. 

For sixty years he was one of the prominent men of 
his neighborhood and of the county. His fine presence 
attracted the attention of strangers and commanded 
their respect. His son John, now an old man, is a 
resident of Lancaster. One of his daughters married 
David Keller, now a prominent banker of Shelby 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 179 

County, Illinois, and one married Capt. A. R. Keller, 
late of this city. One daughter married the late Capt. 
Rigby. 

JOHN LEITH 

There are but few of this generation who ever 
heard of John Leith. He was a farmer, and lived two 
miles from Pleasantville, in Walnut township. His 
father emigrated from Leith, Scotland, to South Caro- 
lina. His mother was a native of Virginia. John 
was born on the Peedee river, March 15, 1755, and was 
left an orphan at five years. His uncle took charge of 
him and soon apprenticed him to a tailor, who took 
him to Charleston to live. In three or four years he 
ran off and made his way to York, Pennsylvania, where 
he engaged himself to a farmer, with whom he re- 
mained four years. He then made his way to Fort 
DuOuesne, afterwards Fort Pitt, now Pittsburg. Here 
he engaged himself to an Indian trader, and they took 
a stock of goods to an Indian village on the Hock- 
Hocking, then called the "Standing Stone." We find 
upon examination of some authorities that this was 
about the year 1772 or 1773. His employer left him 
here at the age of 17 years in charge of the store and 
went to Fort Duquesne for more goods. The Indians 
confiscated the goods and carried Leith ofiF a prisoner. 
He remained in captivity 16 years and had a varied 
experience. A part of this time he clerked for British 
Indian agents in various localities — for three or four 
years at Upper Sandusky. At the time he lived near 
Mt. Pleasant there was a white woman with the In- 
dians, but he did not give her name. This is the first 
white woman known to have lived on the spot where 
Lancaster stands. In 1779, while still a prisoner, he 
was married to Sallie Lowry, also a prisoner. This 



180 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

took place at Coshocton. He was 24 and she was 18 
years of age. His wife had been a prisoner since a 
mere child. They lived two years in Gnadenhutten. 
Two children, boys, were born to them. Samuel was 
born in 1780, and died in Fairfield County in 1820. He 
was the second white child born in the Tuscarawas " 
valley. In 1786 he, with his wife and two children, 
escaped from the Indians, leaving near Sandusky, with 
a supply of parched corn, and made their way on foot 
through the wilderness, in winter time, a distance of 
200 miles to Fort Pitt, where they arrived in safety, 
having subsisted on the parched corn. He lived for a 
few years in Pennsylvania, for a time in Robbstown, 
and was for a time a partner of David Duncan, a 
trader. During these years he became religious. In 
the year 1795 he built a boat and loaded his goods and 
family, and floated down the Ohio to Marietta. Here 
they tried to push his boat up the Muskingum, but 
met with an accident, and boat and goods were lost. 
For several years after this accident he had a sad and 
varied experience. His wife died and left him alone. 
In a year or two he married a Mrs. McKee, and with 
her moved to Guernsey County, and from there to Fair- 
field. This was about the year 1816. He died in the 
year 1832. His first wife was a sister of Jane Lowry, 
who was also a prisoner among the Indians, and be- 
came the wife of John McNaghten, a pioneer of Wal- 
nut township. His son, George W. Leith, lived for 
many years near Nevada, Wyandotte County, Ohio, 
and if we mistake not, was associate judge of the Com- 
mon Pleas court. Leith was a very enthusiastic mem- 
ber of the Methodist church, and related a wonderful 
conversion and experience in a pamphlet written for 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 181 

him by Ewel Jeffries and printed by the Lancaster 
Gazette, in 1831. Rev. Samuel Hitt brought him into 
the church. 

REV. DAVID JONES 

Among the noted visitors to the spot where Lan- 
caster now stands, the name of Mr. Jones cannot be 
omitted. Rev. David Jones hved at Freehold, New 
Jersey, and so far as known, was the first preacher to 
visit the territory of Ohio. He was a Welsh Baptist. 
In 1772, he, with Gen. Geo. Rogers Clarke and several 
other adventurers, left Fort Pitt for the lower Ohio, 
Louisville being the destination of General Clarke. 
On this trip Jones preached to Indians and scattered 
settlers wherever he found them. Rev. Jones made the 
return trip in 1773, overland We give a passage from 
his journal: "February 9, 1773, came safe to Mr. 
McCormick's, at Standing Stone. This town consists 
chiefly of Delaware Indians, and is located on the 
Hock-Hocking creek. Though it is not wide, yet it 
admits large canoes and peltry is thus transmitted to 
Fort Pitt. Overtook here Mr. David Duncan, a trader 
from Shippenstown, on his way to Fort Pitt." Here 
was a trading post kept by a white man, a stopping 
place for others, and a wandering missionary 27 years 
before Lancaster was thought of, and corroborative of 
Leith's story as to a trading post. It is highly prob- 
able that Leith was there and that Jones saw him. 
During the war of the revolution Rev. David Jones 
was a chaplain attached to the command of General 
Anthony Wayne, of the Pennsylvania line. 

He was a very eloquent man and did much to cheer 
up the soldiers and maintain discipline at Valley Forge. 
He told the disheartened soldiers "that a shad would as 



182 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

soon be seen backing up a tree as a revolutionary 
soldier turning his back on the enemy or going to hell." 

Robert McClellend, the famous Indian scout, of. 
General Wayne's army, visited Mt. Pleasant, or Stand- 
ing Stone, a few years after the visit of Jones, but as a 
spy, and accidentally finding a white girl, heroically 
fought off the Indians for a day and night and rescued 
her from a horrible fate. 

He became a resident of Lancaster in 1800, and kept 
one of the first taverns. His daughter married Thos. 
Hart. They reared a large family. J. B. Hart, Judge 
Samuel Hart, Mrs. Borland and Mrs. Stambaugh were 
children. McClelland spent his old age on a farm in 
Perry County. He was born in western Pennsylvania. 
He has many relatives there and in Pittsburg ; also near 
Steubenville, Ohio. His uncle Robert was a pioneer of 
Jefferson County. His family was a large and prom- 
inent one. They were Scotch-Irish. 

McNAGHTEN 

The McNaghten family was for near 90 years quite 
prominent in Walnut township. The ancestor of this 
family was Thomas McNaghten, a Scotchman, who 
came to America prior to the revolutionary war. Like 
thousands of other good Scotchmen, he settled in Penn- 
sylvania. One writer, Fiske, states that more than 
500,000 Scotch-Irish came to the United States and set- 
tled in the interior and western part of Pennsylvania 
and the valleys of Virginia and North Carolina. 

Another writer. Hunter, avers, and gives ample 
authority and names of public men, that they were the 
prominent Indian fighters who defended the frontier 
for 40 years against the Indians. And that they were 
the prominent leading men who settled in Kentucky 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 183 

and Ohio and left the impress of their genius and enter- 
prise upon the institutions and laws of those states. 
The Scct:!;-I:ish were undoubtedly a great people and 
a great factor in western civilization. More prominent 
and useful men of that race adorn the pages of Ohio 
history than of any other. Whoever, therefore, has a 
trace of Scotch-Irish blood in his veins, has reasons to 
be proud of a noble ancestry. 

John, the son of Thomas McNaghten, married Jane 
Lowry, a sister of Sallie Lowry, who was the wife of 
Jo'hn Leith, referred to above. Like her sister, she 
had been a prisoner among the Indians, and after her 
escape or redemption, married John McNaghten in 
Western Pennsylvania, and moved to Ohio. This was 
prior to 1806, but we cannot give the year. He was a 
taxpayer here in 1806. He settled two miles northeast 
of Pleasantville in what has been known a century as 
the Elm flats. Here he purchased land enough to give 
each of his children a farm — the sons, John, Thomas, 
James, Neal, Alexander, 160 acres each ; and the 
daughters, Mary, Jane and Elizabeth, 80 acres each — 
a 50 per cent, discrimination unworthy of his Scotch 
blood. In a few years the sons and daughters, except 
Thomas, sold their lands and left the country ; Neal 
going to Wheeling, and the others to the west. Neal 
became quite a prominent citizen of Wheeling • — was 
respected and esteemed for many good qualities of 
head and heart. He was a gentleman of elegant man- 
ners and fine presence, a man who attracted attention 
on all occasions. Thomas McNaghten was the repre- 
sentative man of this family, and lived a long and hon- 
orable life in this county. He was always the noted 
and prominent man in his township, and distinguished 
for his integrity and other good qualities. During all 



18i Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

of his life he was a leading member of the old school 
Baptist church. Every third Sunday found him in his 
seat in the northeast corner of the church at Pleasant 
Run, surrounded by the fine heads of Jonas Friend, 
Col. RufTner, Christian Baker, Jonathan Peters, Tunis 
Ashbrook, John Ashbrook and Jacob Kagy. As goodly 
a company as any man ever worshipped with. His first 
wife was Rebecca Young. Their children were Jane, 
Mary, Araba, David, Noah, Owen, John S. Children 
by his second and third wives were Hiram, Cyntha, 
Rebecca, Harrison, Thomas J., James M. and Tunis. 

David married Amelia Ashbrook and they spent 
their lives on a farm near their old home. One of their 
favorite sons was killed in the charge upon Fort Wag- 
ner and was heard of no more. 

Noah McNaghten was for 30 years a very promi- 
nent farmer of Richland township. His wife was a 
daughter of Tunis Ashbrook. No better citizen lived 
in his time than Noah McNaghten. He has been dead 
a number of years. His widow lives with a daughter 
near Boston, Massachusetts. Owen McNaghten mar- 
ried a daughter of Christian Baker and became an ex- 
cellent and prosperous farmer of Walnut township. He 
reared a good family of children. He has been dead 
a number of years. Tunis McNaghten lives in Frank- 
lin county, Ohio. He is a prosperous farmer. Both 
he and his brother Thomas were valiant soldiers in the 
Union army. Thomas J. McNaghten is the present 
postmaster of Pleasantville. He married the youngest 
daughter of Tunis Ashbrook. Thomas J. is an exem- 
plary citizen and follows in the footsteps of his Bap- 
tist father, he being one of the leading members of the 
Pleasant Run church. 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 185 

The descendants of John McNaghten are very num- 
erous in Ohio, Indiana, IlHnois and Iowa ; also Penn- 
sylvania and West Virginia, and an honor to the sturdy 
race from which they sprang. 

We have traced but one family, as that is the only 
one in a marked manner identified with Fairfield 
County. We would be glad to give more information 
in regard to this branch, but it is difficult to obtain re- 
liable and full information. We fear that many people 
will, when too late, wake up to the fact that their family 
history is lost. The writer is trying to preserve what 
is yet obtainable, and to stimulate others to do likewise. 

THE WELL-KNOWN PETERS FAMILY 

It is not known in what year the ancestor of the 
Peters family came to America, or from what country. 
He settled in Philadelphia as a married man and two 
sons were born, Jacob and Henry. 

Henry was twice married but was not blessed with 
children. Jacob was born in Philadelphia and married 
there. He moved to Baltimore where he reared his 
family of three sons and one daughter. We cannot 
give name of daughter, but can only state that she mar- 
ried a man named Burns. The sons were John, Jacob 
and Samuel. Samuel, the ancestor of the family, the 
subject of this sketch, was born in Philadelphia Sep- 
tember 27, 1772. He died at his home in Amanda 
township, Fairfield County, O., September 10, 1829. 

His wife was Mary Stevenson, daughter of Daniel 
Stevenson, of Baltimore county, Md. She was born 
September 28, 1773, and died in Fairfield County Feb- 
ruary 15, 1861, aged 87 years. Their oldest son, Henry 
Peters, was born October i, 1796. They came to Ohio 



186 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

April, 1812, and lived for five years on what is now the 
Frank Stevenson farm. 

Daniel Stevenson was born September 21, 1737, 
and died September 3, 1829. Ruth, his wife, was born 
January 24, 1743, and died January 12, 1834. They 
were the parents of ten children. They came to Ohio 
several years earlier than Peters and his wife. The 
wife of Samuel Peters was a model woman and mother. 
She was a daughter of Daniel Stevenson, one of the 
early pioneers of Richland township, and on whose 
land the first Methodist church in the county was 
erected. The old homestead now belongs to Edward 
Stevenson, a grandson of the pioneer. There were 
several brothers and sisters of the Stevenson family, 
Daniel, Jesse, Mordecai, Edward, Mrs. Peters and 
Mrs. Hampson are those remembered ; most of them 
were born in Maryland and came to Ohio with their 
father as early as 1803. James Hampson, during life 
a very prominent farmer of Pleasant township, was a 
grandson of Daniel Stevenson. Frank Stevenson, son 
of Mordecai, occupies the old homestead, one of the 
best farms in Fairfield County. Mrs. John Greer is a 
granddaughter of Daniel Stevenson. The children 
married and settled upon farms in the neighbor- 
hood, where most of the old stock lived and died. 
Daniel Stevenson, the pioneer and father of this large 
family, was a very prominent man of the early days 
and much respected for his sterling character. He 
was a Methodist and gave the ground for the first 
church in the county. He entertained Bishop Asbury 
on one or two of his visits to this county, and it was 
on his land where Asbury -conducted the first camp 
meeting held in the county. The church referred to 
was built of hewn logs. A few of our readers will 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 187 

remember the big broad axes used to do this work, 
and with what skill a few of the pioneer workmen 
could use them, and with what skill the corner men 
could notch the logs perfectly, and carry up their 
corner, a perilous job, but performed by hundreds of 
men. We have digressed and now return to the his- 
tory, briefly, of the Peters family. 

Mr. Peters and wife came in the year 1812 to Fair- 
field County and settled two miles north of West Rush- 
ville, on Rushcreek, at the mouth of Snake run. Here 
they remained for about the space of five years, when 
they purchased land south of Royalton, (now owned 
by Benjamin Haas ) and opened up a farm and endured 
the hardships incident to pioneer life. Here they spent 
their lives, living the quiet life of farmers and rearing 
a large family of children. Mr. Peters was a man of 
sterling character and possessed good business qualifi- 
cations. He was prominent and -beloved m his neigh- 
borhood, and exerted an influence in the community far 
above the average. His success in rearing a large 
family to honorable ana useful lives, is evidence of 
many good fjuaHtics and ability as a parent — the good 
wife and mother comes 'n\ here for a large share of 
credit. His sons were Henry. Nathan, Robinson J., 
Ebenezer, Wesley, Gideon, Stevenson, Lewis and 
Andrew, most of whom lived to old age and all excep- 
tionall}' fine business men. Nine brothers, possessing 
better business ability, or more successful in business 
will be hard to find among the pioneers, or at any other 
period. They were stalwart men, most of them of 
commanding presence. Take this family, the Steven- 
son family, the Beery family — where can you find such 
large families of stalwart, robust long-lived men ? 



188 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

Where can we find such men, even in small families? 
Are we degenerating? 

Henry Peters at an early day moved to Marion 
County and when the Wyandotte Indians sold out he 
moved to Wyandot County. He was a good man, n 
sagacious man. He prospered and made good invest- 
ments. He died a few years ago in Upper Sandusky, 
and left to his heirs quite an estate. Upon the death 
of his brother Gideon in 1844 he took charge of his 
children and reared them as a father, and at his death 
they were well remembered. Nathan Peters moved to 
Marion County at an early date. He engaged in farm- 
ing for a number of years and was successful. His 
old age was spent in Marion where he owned a fine 
home. His son Harvey was for many years a leading- 
druggist of Marion. 

Ebenezer Peters moved at an early day to Marion 
County where he was a prosperous farmer and stock 
dealer. Like all of his brothers he was a good business 
man and resi)ectcd and honored by his neighbors. He 
died some years since at an advanced age. In middle 
age he resided in Marion where he took an active part 
in politics and assisted in electing our fellow citizen 
Samuel A. Griswold county auditor. His son Irwin 
Peters is still living. 

The Peters name is one that is honored in Marion 
and Upper Sandusky. 

Stevenson and Lewis became farmers and located 
in Pickaway County, near Nebraska P. O. Like their 
brothers they were successful in business, accumulated 
property and lived in good style. They were among 
the prominent members of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church in that vicinity. Lewis Peters was an unusu- 
ally intelligent man, of good social qualities and a man 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 189 

of influence and very highly esteemed. One of his 
sons married a daughter of Rev. John W. White, once 
well known in Lancaster, and resides in Upper San- 
dusky. Both gentlemen are dead. A son of Steven- 
son, a man of some parts, occupies the old home. The 
second wife of Lewis Peters was a daughter of Wm. 
Coulson, a distinguished pioneer merchant of Rushville. 

A son of Lewis Peters, Hon. S. R. Peters, of New- 
ton, Kan., is an old Pickaway County boy, born in Wal- 
nut township in 1842. He is a graduate of Delaware 
University, and served through the war as a member of 
the Seventy-third regiment, O. V. L, coming out of the 
service as captain. He went to Kansas following the 
war, and in a little over a year after settling in that 
state his political career began. He was a member of 
the State Senate, judge of the Ninth Judicial District, 
a very trying region to hold court. He was three times 
elected to the difficult position without opposition. In 
1883 he was elected at large to the Forty-eighth Con- 
gress. In 1890 he declined further congressional hon- 
ors, preferring to practice his profession. Judge Peters 
is now postmaster at Newton and editor of the Kansas 
Republican, published in that city. He also practices 
law. Judge Peters' wife was Amelia C. Doan, daugh- 
ter of Rev. John Doan, and they were married in Cir- 
cleville in April, 1867. Mrs. Peters was a universal 
favorite in Washington society during their residence 
in that city. Dr. W. L. Peters lives in Circleville. 

Gideon Peters learned the trade of a tanner and 
for some years conducted the business at the foot of 
Main street. He was a prominent member of the Meth- 
odist church in the forties. He died in the prime of 
life in 1844. He married a Stevenson. 



190 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

Wesley Peters lived most of his life in Hocking 
township. He was a quiet citizen and unassuming in 
his manners. A man to be liked and trusted upon first 
acquaintance. In the late years of his life he lived on 
" Hallelujah Heights " near town. His wife was an 
Ingman. 

For a year or two he was president of the Fairfield 
County Bank. He died at an advanced age. His son 
John W. Peters is a very prominent Methodist preacher 
of the Cincinnati Conference. Henry Will Peters, 
Samuel Peters, Silas and James were his sons. Sallie, 
his youngest daughter, resides in Champaign, 111. Mrs. 
Thomas Strode and Mrs. George Hoffman reside near 
Lancaster. Mrs. Euens in the West; Dr. Wesley 
Peters, of this city, is a grandson, as is Mr. George 
Peters, of Hocking township. A daughter of Silas 
Peters is the wife of George Lamb, of Hooker. 

Robinson J. Peters was one of the prosperous farm- 
ers of this county. He married a Galligher of Amanda 
township and for some years was a farmer in that 
township. About middle age he came to Hocking 
township, and was both a farmer and capitalist. He 
was a money n.aker from the start and pursued his 
business with unflagging courage and industry. He 
was a shrewd business man and seldom made a mis- 
take in his investments or business ventures. He was a 
judge of good land and owned fine and productive 
farms. He died at a great age having passed, by two 
or three, his eightieth year. Zebulon, his oldest son, 
passed three score and ten, inherited good business 
qualities, industry and integrity. He has reared and 
educated an interesting family. His oldest son Henry 
is the Vice President of the Fairfield County Bank. 
Frank is a farmer of Greenfield township. A daughter 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 191 

married Georgia Cunningham. Zebulon's wife was the 
daughter of Mr. Jacob Beck. His son Will is a part- 
ner in the firm of N. R. Butler & Co. Newton Peters, 
another son and now a gray-headed man, married a 
daughter of David Eversole. Thev have reared quite 
a large family of children. Two of the sons, Robinson 
and Charles are promising young farmers of Hockmg 
township. A daughter married James Claypool. 

One of R. J. Peters' daughters married Thos. 
Cochran and another Thos. Whiley. 

Andrew Peters married a daughter of Valentine 
Reber, a sister of one of the best of Fairfield County's 
men, Henry Reber. Andrew Peters was a good and 
successful farmer and cattle man. He made money and 
at one time owned i,6oo acres of very fine land. He 
was prominent in Fairfield County, and was elected 
County Commissioner in 1854. He lived beyond four 
score years. His son Milton is one of the large farmers 
of this county, owns a fine home and lives in elegant 
style. Frank lives upon a 300 acre farm in Pickaway 
County and John in the same county on a like farm. 

The only daughter married George Creed and lived 
and died upon a farm near her old home in Amanda 
township. Her son Frank Creed, is a promising young 
man. 

A daughter of Sam'l Peters married Wm. Brum- 
field, one of the first brewers of Lancaster. They 
lived for many years upon their farm near town. 
Broad Cole married one of the daughters. He was 
a well known farmer forty years ago and resided at 
the big spring, where Felix Swope now lives. The 
Coles were early settlers and at the house of the pio- 
neer. Bishop Asbury preached in 1803 the first sermon 
heard in the township. 



192 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

Thos. Cole, son of Broad, is an old school Baptist 
preacher and a very worthy man. 

One of the daughters married Daniel Walters and 
they spent their lives upon a farm in Amanda township. 
Judge Festus Walters of the Common Pleas Court of 
Circleville, is their son. He has attained quite a prom- 
inent position at the bar. 

The venerable Elizabeth Williamson, widow of 
Isaac N. Williamson, is a daughter of Samuel Peters 
and the only one now living of this large family of sons 
and daughters. She has lived beyond four score years 
and may be often met in town in fair weather. This 
is a brief sketch of a very remarkable family and in all 
respects a very worthy one. Prominent, influential and 
highly esteemed wherever known. 

THE ASHBAUGH FAMILY 

The Ashbaugh family of Rushcreek left Hunting- 
ton County, Pennsylvania, in the fall of 1799, for the 
Ohio country, and arrived safely at the cabin of 
Col. Samuel Carpenter, December 31, 1799, where 
they remained over night. That night a child was 
born to one of the families and was named David 
Ashbaugh. The parents were John Jr. and Catharine 
Miller, his wife. The family that left Pennsylvania 
consisted of John Ashbaugh, sr., and wife, and their 
sons, Jacob, Joseph, Frederick and Andrew and his 
two daughters, Mary and Patsy, and John Ashbaugh, 
jr., and wife. They came in company with Joseph 
Miller, wife and daughters Elizabeth and Rachel. 
Rachel Miller, in about twelve months became the 
wife of Edward Young and reared a large family of 
children. She was the mother of the late Mrs. Jacob 
Moyer. The party floated down the Ohio from Pitts- 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 193 

burgh on flatboats, or family boats, landing at the 
mouth of the Hockhocking. The men came up the 
valley on foot and on horseback, and the women, with 
the goods, in canoes, to the mouth of Rushcreek. 
Here the goods were placed upon pack horses and 
the party made their way to Col. Carpenter's cabin on 
foot. From Carpenter's they traveled through the 
woods to a spot since known as the Neely farm and 
now as the Weaver place, near Bremen. Here a 
small plat of ground had been cleared the previous 
spring by Joseph Miller, John and Joseph Ashbaugh. 

Elizabeth, a daughter of John Ashbaugh, sr., was 
left in Pennsylvania. She had previously married a 
Mr. Saxton of Huntington, and there she lived with 
her family until her death in 1822. 

Mr. Saxton was a mechanic. He manufactured 
nails by hand, a slow process, but then the only 
method. Four sons were born to them, viz : John, 
Joshua, Joseph and William. John Saxton learned 
the trade of a printer and came west at an early 
day and commenced the publication of a weekly paper 
called the Repository, at Canton, Ohio. John Sax- 
ton was a man of ability and of high character and 
was, all of his useful life, a distinguished citizen of 
Canton, Ohio. He was the father of James Saxton, 
the banker, and the grandfather of Mrs. President 
McKinley. We gather from this that Mrs. McKinley 
is a third cousin of the late John Ashbaugh. Elizabeth 
Ashbaugh. Mrs. McKinley 's great grandmother, was 
the aunt of John Ashbaugh, of Lancaster, Ohio. 
Joshua Saxton learned the printer's trade and made 
his way to Canton, Ohio, when a young man and 
assisted his brother in the publication of his paper. 

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194 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

In 1838 he moved to Urbana and established a weekly 
paper called the Citizen. He was always a promi- 
nent and useful citizen of Urbana, and like his brother 
John achieved much more than a local reputation. 

Many years ago the writer had the pleasure of 
meeting both brothers in their respective editorial 
rooms in Urbana and Canton. 

Joseph and William Saxton, sons also of Elizabeth 
Saxton, settled at an early day in Washington City. 
Joseph was a fine scholar and a very brilliant me- 
chanical genius. He was a silversmith by trade. 
Prof. Bache pronounced him the greatest mechanical 
genius the world ever saw. He was a member of 
the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia and of the 
Royal Society of London, England. He made the 
city clock of Philadelphia, still to be seen and heard 
at Independence Hall. He spent nine years in Paris 
and London and while there invented the first mag- 
netic machine capable of producing a spark. He 
exhibited his machine in the presence of thousands 
of people in London and was honored by the presence 
of forty scientists. He was received with great honor 
while abroad. He invented and made the machinery 
of the United States mint at Philadelphia. He in- 
vented the electric clock in the department of weights 
and measures in Washington, D. C. John Ashbaugh 
<once visited this cousin and was very cordially received. 

Joseph and Jacob, sons of John Ashbaugh, sr., 
moved at an early day to Kentucky and the family 
lost all trace of them and their descendants. 

Patsy, the daughter of John Ashbaugh, sr., mar- 
ried Mr. A. Ray and died young. 

Mary, a daughter of John, sr., married Samuel 
Ray. They were the parents of two daughters, one 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 195 

of whom became the wife of Wright Larimer, and the 
other the wife of Isaac Larimer. 

Catharine, a daughter of John, sr., married Asa 
Johnson. They were the parents of the late Edwnrd 
Johnson, of Rush Creek. 

Andrew Ashbaugh married Esther Ray, of Hunt- 
ington county, Pennsylvania, and after coming to 
Rushcreek settled east of Bremen on the farm now 
owned by A. Grafis. Their children were John, Wil- 
liam, Abraham, Samuel, James and Robert, Catharine, 
Jane, Margaret and Elizabeth, who married George 
Orndorff. Their daughter, Margaret, married Wil- 
liam Rowles, who now lives with a second wife near 
Pleasantville, Ohio. 

Andrew, at an early day, sold his farm to his 
brother Frederick and moved to Perry county, where 
he reared his large family. 

Jo'hn, the oldest son, was born October 24, 1808. 
He worked on the farm until 21 years of age. He 
worked for William B. Lewis, of Rushville and learned 
the carpenter trade. While in Rushville he witnessed 
the great fight between Isaac Wilson and a man 
named Maxwell, who came from the east on pur- 
pose to whip Wilson. A large crowd of people formed 
a circle and the combatants fought to a finish. ]\lax- 
well was at the close of the fight put to bed and was 
under the care of a doctor for several weeks. 

John Ashbaugh was for some time a partner of 
Jacob Moyer in the building business. 

In 1839 he married Mary Beery, daughter of 
George Beery, and engaged in the mercantile bus- 
iness in Bremen, and so cor.tmui J until the \'.ar 
1854. He traded in horses, tobacco and packed pork. 



196 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

In 1854 he sold out to Simon and Thomas E. Beery. 
He then purchased the Lieb farm north of Bremen. 

In 1870 he purchased the Albert Claypool farm, 
east of Lancaster, where his son George now lives. 
In 1874 he moved to Lancaster, where he died Novem- 
ber 10, 1895. His children were George B., Josephine 
and Kate. George married Mary A. McCandlish, of 
Bremen; Josephine married Dr. Rankin, of Bremen; 
Miss Kate resides with her mother in Lancaster. 

Kate Rankin married Samuel Porter, of Mus- 
kingum County ; Viola married Jessie Rowles of 
Bremen ; Nellie married Victor Coen. of New Mexico ; 
(irace and Florence Rankin are with their parents 
in Bremen. 

William Ashbaugh. brother of John, married Julia 
Cohagen and lived on a farm near Rushville. His 
death occurred in 1892. 

John ]., his son, married Jennie Davis, daughter 
of David Y. Davis, of Rushcreek. He lives on the 
old Davis farm and is a highly esteemed citizen of 
his township and a veteran of the civil war. George 
was accidentally killed in Indiana. Robert married 
Miss Franks and lives in Rushville, Ohio. James 
lives in Columbus, Ohio. Hiram was a farmer and 
(lied in Indiana. IMariah. daughter of William, mar- 
ried \\'illiam Work and lives near Rushville. Eliza- 
beth married Charles Rowles, of Bremen. Jane mar- 
ried A\'i]liam Stuart and now lives, a widow, in 
P.ucyrus. Ohio. Margaret married Isaac Mast — both 
are now dead. 

.A-braham Ashbaugh, brother of William and John, 
married a Miss Linton and moved to Tama county, 
Iowa, where they died. Samuel and James lived and 
died in Perrv Countv. Thev were farmers. 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 197 

Robert, son of Andrew, was a carpenter. He was 
a soldier of the Union army and lost his health in 
the service. He died a few years since in Columlnis, 
Ohio. His widow and son, George, live in Columbus. 

Another son lives in Wheeling, W. Va. (Hart). 

Catharine, daughter of Andrew Ashbaugh, mar- 
ried Washington Adcock. Thev lived in Perry county, 
Ohio, and reared a large family. 

Adcock gave each of his children a farm and has 
several hundred acres left. 

Jane married John Cohagen and both are now 
dead.- Children of this couple live, or did live, near 
Pickcrington, Ohio. Margaret married Anderson 
Crooks. 

Fred Ashbaugh, brother of Andrew, married Mary 
Musser. of Rushcreek. Three of their children moved 
to new homes in the north and west. 

( )ne of the daughters married George Spangler. 
Th.eir daughter. Miriam, married Joseph Stukey, ?on 
of Judge Stukey. who in time moved to Jasper County, 
Missouri. Their son,^ W. W. Stukey, lives in Lan- 
caster, Ohio, also a daughter, Clara Good. 

Eliza married Robert Shugart of Lancaster, and 
died there. 

John Jr., brother of Andrew, married Catherine 
Miller of 1 Pennsylvania. They settled on a farm near 
Jerusalem church, cast of Bremen. They reared a 
family of ten children. 

Tosejjh married Elizabeth Musser and moved to 
Perry County, Ohio. 

David was born January i, 1800, in the cabin of 
Col. Samuel Carpenter, if tradition is correct, where 
the parents were over night before going to Rushcreek. 
He lived and died in Rushcreek, below Geneva. 



198 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

Andrew, son of John Jr., married Elizabeth, 
daugliter of Amos Davis, a very prominent Rushcreeiv 
man. 

Seymour married Catherine Leckrone and moved 
to Efifingham county, 111. 

Margaret married Geo. McCandish. They lived 
a few years on a farm and then moved to Bremen, 
where McCandish, for some years, was a merchant. 

They were the parents of Mrs. Geo. Beery Ash- 
baugh. 

Elizabeth, daughter of John Jr., married Absalom 
McCormick of Perry County. 

The Ashbaughs have been prominent people in 
Rushcreek township for loo years. 

They were all food business men in their line and 
maintained throughout their long career an honor- 
able record. 

THE BEERY FAMILY 

The Beery family has been for more than 130 
years one of the largest and most prominent in the 
valley of \Mrginia. They were, originally, from 
Berks county, Pennsylvania. 

A ])ranch of this family, or rather two branches, 
came, or began to come, to Fairfield County as early 
as 1800, and settled in Rushcreek township. 

Nicholas Beery of Rockingham County, Virginia, 
was the fcnuuler. or ancestor of the Fairfield family we 
l)ropf)sc to sketch in this paper. 

ITc was l)orn in Rockingham County, Virginia, was 
twice married, and reared a family of sixteen chil- 
dren. I lis first wife was a Miss Keller, an aunt of the 
late lion. Daniel Keller, of Fairfield County. 

Their sons were John, Jacob, Abraham, Isaac, 
Henry, George and Nicholas. Their daughters were 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 199 

Barbara, Elizabeth, Martha, Mary and Susan. The 
second wife of Nicholas Beery was a woman of Rock- 
ingham whose name we cannot give. Their children 
were Joseph and Christopher, Margaret and Fanny. 
All of the children, except Barbara, who married Mr. 
Blosser, came early to Fairfield County. 

John, son of Nicholas, married Margaret Shaeffer 
and settled just east of where Berne Station is now 
located. Their sons were Noah, David, Abraham and 
Nicholas. Noah married, for his wife, Miss Rader, 
who wa.s a daughter of John Rader, of Rockingham 
County, Virginia, and for his second wife, a Mrs. 
Smith, and moved to N. W. Missouri, where he pros- 
pered and was a respected and influential citizen. A 
daughter of his married Andrew J. Snider, at this 
time a wealthy stock dealer of Kansas City, and presi- 
dent of the First National Bank of that city. A son, 
Chester A. Snider, of Mr. and Mrs. Snider, married 
a daughter of ex-Governor Oglesby, of Illinois. An- 
other son, a very promising young man, died in Cali- 
fornia. 

David married a Hufford and moved to Missouri. 
Abraham married a daughter of Frederick Friesner. 
He moved to Logan, Hocking County, and lived and 
died there. Nicholas married a sister of Frederick 
Sites. He moved to Missouri. John, the son of Nich- 
olas, Jr.. married a sister of Jacob Huber and moved 
to Auglaize county, Ohio. Delilah married John 
Beatty. Their son, J. H. Beatty, is United States Dis- 
trict Judge of Idaho. Elijah Beery of Sugar Grove, 
was a son of Nicholas. 

The onlv daughter of John Beerv, Elizabeth, mar- 
ried John Coffman, near Carroll, the father of the 
late Samuel Coffman and grandfather of Benjamin. 



200 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

Jacob Beery married Nancy Geil, in Virginia. 
Upon their arrival in Fairfield, they settled on a farm 
on Upper Raccoon, now owned by Frank, a son of 
Lewis Beerv. Later in life they moved to Wyandot 
County, Ohio, where they died. 

Abraham Beery married Catharine Fast and they 
settled on the bluft, north side of Raccoon and one 
mile east of Berne. Their son, Abraham, married a 
Miss Elizabeth Weldy and moved to Decatur, Indiana, 
where he still lives. Their son, Joel, married Sarah 
ITuddle and moved to Darke county, Ohio. Their 
daughter, Elizabeth, married Abraham Geil and they 
lived and died in Rushcreek. Their daughter, Cath- 
arine, married Joseph Swartz, and lived near Mount 
Tabor church. They were the parents of Joel and Rev. 
Andrew Swartz and Mrs. Sheldon. 

Sarah, daughter of Abraham, married Henry 
Swartz of North Berne. Later in life Mr. Swar|:z 
moved to Illinois. One of his sons married a daugh- 
ter of Samuel Jackson. He enlisted in the Union 
arm.y and died in the service. Ex-Mayor Swartz, of 
Columbus, is their son. 

Rebecca, daughter of Abraham, married John 
Turner. Turner died leaving his widow with a fam- 
ily of small children. Jacob B. Turner of Bremen, 
all of his life a reputable and influential citizen of this 
county, is one of the sons of this couple. A brother 
resides in Bremen and Peter in Lancaster, Ohio. 
Their son Emantiel. now deceased, was a minister in 
the Evangelical church. Mr. Turner's widow mar- 
ried John Shoemaker. Mrs. Shoemaker is still living 
near Bremen. Ohio. Their son Eli is a Methodist 
preacher. Fanny, daughter of Abraham, married 
F.manucl Sites, who became one of the highly es- 



Of Fairf.eld County, Ohio. 201 

teemed citizens of Pleasant township. George Sites 
and attorney J. S. Sites, of Lancaster, are sons of 
Emanuel. Mrs. John E. Miller and Mrs. Frank 
Beery are daughters, and Drs. H. C. and E. F. Sites, 
of Ft. Wayne, Ind., are sons. Delilah, daughter of 
Abraham, married a Mr. Samuel Bear and they moved 
to Darke County, Ohio, where Bear died. Late in 
life she became the wife of Emanuel Sites. Mary 
married George Swartz and moved to Hancock Coun- 
tv, Ohio. Another daughter Barbara, married a Mr. 
Daniel Huddle. Samuel, one of their sons, is a min- 
ister. They reared a good family. 

The oldest of Abram's girls married Joel Shaeffer, 
a long time county commissioner. 

Isaac Beery, son of Nicholas, came to Fairfield 
County a single man. He married Mary Cradle- 
baugh, a daughter of the first German Reformed 
preacher in this county. Rev. Cradlebaugh. Her 
brother, Andrew Cradlebaugh, of Circleville, was the 
father of Col. John Cradlebaugh, an attorney of some 
prominence. 

Isaac Beery was a Dunker preacher of consider- 
able prominence and of high character. He lived on 
the original section i->urchascd by his father, south of 
Hartzler's mill on Raccoon. George, son of Isaac, 
was a dentist and lived and died in Royalton and was 
bm-ied tlicrc. .\ndrow died a single man. Levi mar- 
ricfl a Miss Short and moved to Iowa, where both 
(lied. Jesse married Rebecca Larimer, moved west 
and (lied there. Elijah Beery, son of Isaac, married, 
but we can not give the name of his wife. They 
moved to Miami C<iuuty, ( )lii(>. Isaac also married 
and moved to Miami Comity, Ohio. Enoch, son of 
Isaac Bcerv, Sr., married a ladv of Perry County, 



202 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

Ohio. They moved to Miami County, Ohio, where 
he still lives. The horse trainer, named Beery, who 
occasionally visits Lancaster, is a son of Enoch Beery. 

Delilah, daughter of old Isaac, married a Mr. 
Ward, of Miami County, where they lived and died. 
Catharine, daughter of Isaac, married Daniel Sites or 
Seitz, and they lived about one mile south of North 
Berne. Enoch Beery Seitz, one of the famous math- 
ematicians of the world, was their son, and was born 
on the farm in Berne. He was a brilliant scholar 
when a boy and always in advance of his teacher. 

The mother of Prof. Sites is still living in Green- 
ville, aged 92 years. Noah Sites or Seitz was killed 
in the Civil W^ar. 

Elizabeth Beery, daughter of old Isaac, married 
James Stuart, of Rush Creek. Charles Stuart, of 
this city, is their son. 

Maria Beery married a Mr. Fristo and moved to 
Miami County, Ohio. 

Priscilla married a man named Hillis and they 
moved to ]\Tissouri, where they died. 

Henry Beery, son of Nicholas, settled near Sugar 
Grove. \Vc can not give the name of his wife. His 
son-in-law and Henry, his son, live near Sugar Grove. 
Elijah was a prominent citizen of that vicinity for 
sixty years. 

George Beery, son of Nicholas Beery, Sr., was born 
in 1783. He married Catharine Cradlebaugh in 1809, 
a sister of his brother Isaac's wife. They were prom- 
inent and influential people and they reared a large 
and interesting family. George Beery was a well- 
known man — a farmer and merchant by turns. He 
was the original proprietor of the village of Bremen 
and the first merchant there. He died on his farm six 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 203: 

miles east of Lancaster, in 1856. He was the best 
known of his numerous brothers and numbered among 
his friends many prominent men of Lancaster. He 
came to Fairfield County in 1800. 

The numerous sons of George Beery were all good 
business men and they made a success of life. Samuel 
married Catharine Hull and was a farmer all of his 
life. He built the fine brick residence just east of 
Lancaster. He died in the prime of old age. His 
widow married Samuel Black. John married Mary 
Black and lived and died upon his farm near Bremen. 
Joseph died while yet a young man. Isaac was for a 
few years a merchant in Bremen, but moved to Upper 
Sandusky, where he married a daughter of Dr. Fow- 
ler, a wealthy farmer near Little Sandusky. He was, 
in connection with his brother Anthony, a prosperous 
merchant in his new home. Anthony married a Miss 
Sherman. George studied law and settled in Upper 
Sandtisky. He married Ann McDonald, of Lancas- 
ter. In the last few years of his life he was president 
of the First National Bank of Upper Sandusky. 
Simon was for several years a prominent and suc- 
cessful business man of Bremen. He married Mel- 
vina Grove, and late in life moved to Urbana, Ohio. 
He owned a fine farm on Mad River. Noah died 
voung. Solomon was a farmer of this county and is 
now a prosperous one near Upper Sandusky. He 
married Louisa Hammack, of this city. Thomas 
Ewing Beery married a college mate, a Miss Witt, of 
Indiana. He married the second time a Miss Os- 
borne. He has been for many years a successful busi- 
ness man and a highly esteemed and influential citizen 
of Wyandot Cou.nty, Ohio. Christena, daughter of 
George Bcerv, married Charles Stuart and lived near 



204 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

Bremen. Mary married John Ashbaugh and lived 
many years near to and in Bremen. She is a well pre- 
served woman, on the shady side of eighty, and after 
a long and useful life she enjoys the peace and com- 
fort that comes to those who fairly earn it. 

Barbara, the oldest daughter of old Nicholas 
Beery, married a Mr. Blosser and lived and died m 
Virginia. Elizabeth married Rev. Jacob Geil and 
settled on lower Rush Creek. He was a Mennonite. 
Martha married a Comer and lived on what is now the 
George Clover farm. They were the parents of Isaac 
Comer, an old-time tailor of Lancaster, Ohio. 

Mary, daughter of Nicholas, married Rev. Henry 
Stemen. They came to Rush Creek, southeast of 
what is now Bremen, where they reared a large fam- 
ily. Rev. Stemen was an earnest, zealous Mennonite 
preacher, and always spoke in the German language. 
The Beerys were of Pennsylvania German descent and 
all understood the language. Susan married Abra- 
ham Beery, a distant relative of her father. They 
settled in lower Ruch Creek. 

Joseph and Christopher, sons by the second mar- 
riage of Nicholas Beery, married sisters by the name 
of Miller, came to Fairfield and settled on lower Rush 
Creek. Margaret married a Mr. Kechler and lived 
on Raccoon in Rush Creek township. Fanny mar- 
ried Mr. Joseph Hite, of Walnut township. His old 
farm is now owned by Kemp Brothers, at Thurston. 

This completes such record as we are able to give 
of the Nicholas Beery family, one of the largest fam- 
ilies ever known in the count)-, and second to none in 
sterling worth and good citizenship. Their descend- 
ants still fill a large space in this county and are num- 
bered bv hundreds, and in everv western State Beervs 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 205 

are to be found or some of their collateral relatives. 
Daniel, Frederick, Lewis and George Beery, Berne 
township people, and Samuel, Abraham and Christian 
Beery, old Lancaster residents, were relatives of the 
Nicholas Beery family and highly respected people. 
Abraham was Mayor of Lancaster and father of Dr. 
George Beery. 

THE ASHBROOK FAMILY 
The valley of Virginia gave to Fairfield County 
many distinguished and honored citizens ; but that val- 
ley was not alone in furnishing emigrants to Ohio and 
Fairfield County in particular. Hampshire County, in 
the valley of the south branch of Potomac, gave us the 
Ashbrook, Peters and Claypool families, as distin- 
guished and as highly respected as any that adorn the 
annals of our county. The first Peters of which we 
have record, was born October 27, 1749. His wife was 
born October 27, 1759. They were the parents of 
Airs. Aaron Ashbrook and the late Jonathan Peters. 
They lived to a great age. Jonathan and Gershoin were 
their sons, both highly respected and intelligent men. 
They spent the latter years of their life in this county. 
Tonathan lived on the old David Pence farm, in Rich- 
land townslii]x ( )nc of his daughters is tlie wife of 
William iM'icnd. A son. Edward, lives in tlie same 
vicinitv. Gershom reared a large family, living at one 
time in sight of Columlnis, where Orrin Peters was 
l)()rn. ( )ne son is an attorney at Princeton, Illinois. 
M()(->re and Orrin are wealthy manufacturers of Cin- 
cinnati. Orrin married ■Miss Eckert, of this city. Both 
are well known. A sister of these gentlemen. Deborah, 
was the mother of an esteemed citizen of .\manda 
township. John Onincy Adams Rhie. J. O. A. Blue 
married a Gallidier, a connection of the Robinson Pe- 



206 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

ters family, but in no way related to his mother. His 
son, George, married a daUjjhter of Henry Reber. Her 
mother was an Allen, daughter of Howard Allen, who 
married a Leist. Abigail Peters married Aaron Ash- 
brook. The Ashbrook family has been traced to Eng- 
land and back into the misty past. There is a legend 
that long ago a gentleman walking upon the banks of 
a brook noticed a small boy standing near an ash tree. 
He inquired his name but the little fellow did not know 
it. He had compassion upon him, giving him the name 
of Ashbrook, certainly beautiful, appropriate and well 
chosen, and as such it has come down the centuries. 
Aaron Ashbrook was born in Hampshire county, Vir- 
ginia, January 7, 1780. Abigail Peters, his wife, was 
born in the same county January 7, 1782. They were 
married December 22, 1800. Two children were born 
to them in Virginia. Alwut the year 1805 they came 
to Ohio, by wagon and settled in Pleasant township. 
Their old home stood on the blufif between the resi- 
dence of James Hampson and John M. Ashbrook. 
There they lived a quiet life, rearing a large family of 
children and died at a good old age. They lived to see 
their children well established in life, honored and 
respected by their neighbors and fellow citizens. They 
were distinguished members of the old school Baptist 
church at Pleasant Run and Aaron Ashbrook was 
always a conspicuous figure in that congregation. As 
were his sons John and Tunis after him. Aaron Ash- 
brook was at the time of his death 85 years of age and 
his wife Abigail died at the great age of 94 years. 

Aaron Ashbrook had three brothers. Rev. Eli who 
lived in Licking county, and one of whose sons is a 
prominent business man of Newark, and a son-in-law 
of the Rev. George DeBolt, the pioneer Baptist 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 207 

preacher. Thomas and WilHam were the names of his 
other brothers. Thomas lived in Pickaway county 
until about 44 years of age, when he moved to Illinois. 
He was a fine man and a favorite with his relatives. 

William Ashbrook lived first in Pleasant township, 
but moved later to Amanda township where he died. 
His wife was Amelia Peters, sister of Mrs. Aaron Ash- 
brook and Mrs. Blue. Both lived to a good old age. 
Their sons were Absalom, Mahlon, Edward and Wil- 
liam. 

Absolom is dead. He was a farmer in Amanda 
township. Edward is still living in Amanda township 
at the age of 82 years. Mahlon lives in St. Joseph, 
Mo., at the age of 86 years. William lives in Ashville, 
Pickaway County, Ohio.* 

Ira and William, sons of William, are farmers near 
Cedar Hill, this county, Samuel, their brother, is a 
grain dealer of Circleville, Ohio. 

George A., son of Absolom, is a farmer in Pickaway 
County. Frank, another son is a farmer in Bloom 
township. Monroe and John, sons of Absalom, reside 
in Kansas. 

James, a son of Edward Ashbrook, is a popular 
merchant at Newark, Ohio. Thomas M.. a brother, is 
an implement man of Somerset, Ohio. 

E. L. Ashbrook, the popular young Jvcpulilican of 
Amanda township, resides 011 the old homestead with 
his father. Mrs. L. D. Cole, daughter of Edward, lives 
in Columbus. 

There were three sisters in this family. Minerva, 
Ivy and Cecelia. 

Benjamin T. Dunnick, of Pickaway Comity, mar- 
ried Minerva. She is living with a daughter Ivy at 

* The three brothers died recently at their respective homes. 



208 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

East Ringgold. Their daughter. AmeHa, is the wife 
of James M. Steward, a farmer and breeder of Marcy, 
Ohio. 

Daniel R. Kellerman, at one time a prominent 
farmer of Amanda township, married Iv}'. They 
reared a large family of children and gave them a good 
education. Prof. Kellerman. of the Ohio University, 
is their son. One son is a Universalist preacher. Some 
years since D. R. Kellerman and some of his sons 
moved to near Humboldt. Kansas, where Kellerman 
recently died. Their youngest daughter. Dory, married 
a Williamson, and lives in Bluffton. Indiana. 

Benjamin Bowman married Cecilia, and moved to 
the state of Illinois. 

Of the Peters family there were se^■eral sons, viz.: 
Jonathan, Gershom. Rev. Mahlnn. Jolm, Tunis, Rev. 
James and Absolom and four sisters. Katy. Abigail, 
Deborah and Amelia. Most of them lived to a great 
age, filling out honorable and useful positions in life. 
Their descendants are scattered far aufl wide, and but 
few of them are known to each other. ( icr'^bom was 
for some years Associate Judge of Franklin County. 
During at least a part of their lives the Peters brothers 
H\-ed in I'ickawav and Franklin Counties. 

Aaron Asbbrook's children were: 'I'unis P.. Fan- 
nie. John M.. James A.. Katherine. Fli P.. Del)orah, 
Amelia. Adaline, who died voung. 

Ttuiis I'eters Asbbroo]< was l)oni December tq, 
i8oi, in TTanu;)sbire Countv, A'irginia. He received 
such, education as the new Ohio country afforded. 
He married Anna, daughter of David Pence and 
granddaughter of 1-Juanuel Ruffner. Their children 
are Aaron P. A.shbrook, of Kansas : Mrs. Noah Mc- 
Xaughten, of Massachusetts: Mrs. fohn Hill, of 



Of Fairiield County, Ohio. 209 

Pl^asantville ; Mrs. Emanuel Kraner, of Pleasant- 
ville ; Mrs. Sain, now of Parsons, Kansas ; and Mrs. 
Thomas McNaughten, of Pleasantville. 

Tunis P. Ashbrook was a fine farmer, an intelligent 
and upright citizen, respected and honored by all who 
knew him. He divided a handsome estate among his 
children. He belonged to a lovely and affectionate 
family. It used to be said that the Ashbrooks shook 
hands if they met twice in the same day. Tunis died 
March 6, 1866, aged 64 years. A finer looking gentle- 
man than T. P. Ashbrook seldom visited Lancaster. 
His face was an index to his character. John M. Ash- 
brook was born January 2, 1809. He married Katha- 
rine Armstrong, of Lancaster. She is living at Gen- 
eva, Nebraska, in her 8ist year. 

John M., was a live, competent business man and 
a good farmer. He ran a whiskey distillery for a good 
many years with some success. He owned and tilled 
for years large tracts of land. His wealth at one time 
was estimated at $125,000. He was a liberal man, 
hospitable and kind, and his money was freely spent. 
His house was the home of Baptist preachers for forty 
years and Baptist people, and the latch string was out 
to all comers. His house was a free hotel, always full. 
His hospitality was unbounded. The writer can say 
what he was too generous to admit, he was greatly 
imposed upon. He was a public spirited citizen in the 
best sense of the word. He, with David Huber, pro- 
jected the Pleasantville Academy, and carried it to com- 
pletion. In this he took great interest, for he was the 
friend of education and had a local pride in securing 
the Academy. The meeting of citizens in Pleasantville, 
which gave the project endorsement and insured sue- 
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210 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

cess, was called by Eli P. Ashbrook. This meeting \yas 
addressed by Dr. A. P. Miller, Col. J. M. Connell, Hon. 
C. D. Martin, J. C. Hite, and Judge G. Peters. A good 
brick building was soon built and Prof. Freed and 
others have distinguished themselves there and edu- 
cated many young men. P. S. Wiseman was chair- 
man. 

Having succeeded so well in securing an Academy 
for Pleasantville, he became intoxicated with success 
and local pride. We must have a railroad, he said, 
and he and David Huber went to work. He headed 
the subscription by thousands, and became responsible 
for rights of way and other matters and took contracts 
and involved himself in many ways for many thousands 
of dollars, all of which, he eventually paid with his hard 
earned dollars. No man ever worked with greater en- 
thusiasm than did John M. Ashbrook for this railroad. 
He believed that it would be a paying investment. Be- 
sides the loss of thousands of dollars, he gave two years 
■of his time to this road, for which he did not receive 
a penny. It was sad to see a noble, generous, unselfish, 
■enthusiastic, hopeful, energetic man like John M. Ash- 
brook go down. He did not survive the disaster more 
than three or four years. He closed up his railroad 
matters, paid his debts, gathered his family together 
and turned his face toward the West, and resolutely 
sought a new home among strangers. The place he 
loved, to which he had given his time and fortune, he 
was to see no more. Home, the graves of his father, 
friends and neighbors were henceforth to be but a 
memory. He died August 17, 1885, aged 76 years. 
He has a son in Hebron, Nebraska, O. A. Ashbrook, 
who married a daughter of Thomas Duncan. He is 
now postmaster of Hebron, Nebraska. John, a brother, 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 211 

is a citizen of Geneva, Nebraska. He is now a soldier at 
Manilla in the First Nebraska Regiment. James and 
Levi live in Denver, Colorado. Wm. Stewart married 
Blanche and lives in Geneva, Nebraska. He is assistant 
cashier of a bank. 

Rev. Wesley Brandt married Jennie, one of the 
daughters, and lives in the West. Anna lives with her 
mother in Geneva, Nebraska. 

Mrs. Jacob Ulrick, of this city, was the wife and 
widow of Tunis, a son of J. M. Ashbrook. He died 
of disease contracted in the army. 

John and Tunis Ashbrook were lovable men, kind, 
considerate, generous, courteous and Christian gentle- 
men. 

James A. Ashbrook was born August i6, 1811. 
His wife was Rebecca Kagy. James was a farmer for 
years in Pleasant township, but in later life moved to 
Coles County, Illinois. He died January 24, 1879, 
aged 76 years. 

Eli P. Ashbrook was born in Pleasant township, 
December 10, 1816. He was well educated for the 
times in which he lived, and during his young years 
was a successful school teacher. His first wife was 
Adaline Shaw, daughter of John Shaw, a much 
respected farmer of Rushcreek. His wife's broth- 
ers were O. P. Shaw, J. W. Shaw and Andrew Shaw, 
all well known to your readers. His second wife, 
Mary, was a daughter of Andrew Shaw, a number one 
citizen of Rushcreek township, and a brother of John 
Shaw. Joseph Shaw, near West Rushville, is his 
brother-in-law. 

E. P. has had a checkered career. He farmed for 
some years and finally invested money in the distillery 
business. Fire came and swept away most of his in- 



212 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

vestment. He then moved West and settled in Mat- 
toon, Illinois, where he was for some time engaged 
in the woolen mill business. He now lives a retired 
life at Windsor, Illinois, being now nearly 83 years 
of age. Eli P. was always an elegant gentleman, indus- 
trious, energetic and honest, and left a host of friends 
behind, when he left old Fairfield. 

His oldest daughter, Laura, lives in Ada, Ohio, 
and one of his sons is a druggist at Mansfield, Ohio. 

Another is a prosperous man in Washington State. 
Two other daughters are happily married and live, 
one in Mattoon and one in Chicago, Illinois. 

Fanny Ashbrook was born in Hampshire county, 
Virginia, January 3, 1804. She married Lewis Kagy, 
long a good farmer of Walnut township. They reared 
three beautiful daughters, and intelligent girls they 
were. Aaron Kagy, for years the great stock buyer 
of this county, was Lewis Kagy's son. Mary married 
Jacob Walters and lives at Webster City, Iowa. They 
had the misfortune to lose an only daughter by fire, 
her clothing having taken fire. Laura married James 
Church. Rebecca married first, Ben. Walters. She 
married again, this time to a wealthy farmer near 
Ottawa. Illinois. Mrs. Kagy died, aged 93 years. 

Deborah Ashbrook was born May 26, 1819. She 
married David McNaughten. a farmer of Walnut town- 
ship. 

The great sorrow of their lives was the loss of a 
dear boy, Aaron, at the assault upon Ft. Wagner. He 
sleeps in an unknown grave, no one in this county saw 
him fall or is able to tell anything about his death. 
David died, aged 65 years. Deborah died December. 
1897. 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 218 

Katherine Ashbrook was born March 26, 1814. She 
married Samuel Walters, a farmer of Walnut. She 
died October, 1891. Her children live in the West. 

Amelia Ashbrook was born August 19, 1825. She 
married William Cherry, a farmer of Walnut. They 
were the parents of twelve children. She died Novem- 
ber 2, 1877. The Cherry children are married, three or 
four live near the old home, the others in the West. 

It is surprising to learn how the old families are 
locked together by marriage. The two Peters families, 
the Stevensons, Rebers, Rufifners, Leists, Aliens, Ash- 
brooks, Claypools and Shaws are bound together like 
an endless chain. The writer is indebted to Eli P. 
Ashbrook for information furnished. 

The Ashbrooks were well posted politicians. When 
parties divided during President Jackson's term, they 
espoused the cause of the Whig party. They were 
ardent supporters of Gen. Harrison and Henry Clay. 
In 1848, the writer was present at a township Whig 
meeting held in Keller's school house. Tunis P. Ash- 
brook was president. At this meeting Uriah C. Rut- 
ter, then a young school teacher, was a speaker, and de- 
voted his time to a defense of the tariff. He acquitted 
himself so well that the president requested him to 
prepare a speech for the next meeting. 

In 1856 they became Republicans, and for the re- 
mainder of their lives gave their time, their means and 
influence to that party, conscientiously believing, that 
in that way, they were but serving their country. Their 
families were represented in the Union army by active, 
brave and intelligent young men — and while they 
were fighting the foe with undaunted courage, their 
fathers were active, patriotic supporters of the Gov- 
ernment at home. 



214 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

Captain Aaron P. Ashbrook returned in safety 
from the war, and was for many years a popular citizen 
and an active leading Republican of this county. 

Reason Ashbrook, a prominent citizen of Coles 
County, Illinois, formerly lived in this county and be- 
longed to one branch of this family. 

THE PETERS FAMILY (TUNIS, REV.) 

Jonathan and Martha (Thompson) Peters, came 
from Hampshire County, Virginia, in 1816, first stop- 
ping at the home of William Ashbrook, about a mile 
from the old homestead. 

Jonathan Peters was a son of Tunis Peters, who 
lived in Hampshire County, Virginia. Tunis Peters' 
father and mother emigrated from Holland to the 
Shenandoah Valley, and raised a family there in the 
first half of the eighteenth century. Tunis' wife's 
maiden name being Francina Adams. 

Tunis and Francina Peters reared a family of 
thirteen children in Virginia and emigrated to Picka- 
way County, Ohio, following their children after they 
had married. 

Jonathan Peters married Martha Thompson in 
Virginia and came to Pickaway County and afterward 
removed to Fairfield County. 

Jonathan was one of the pioneer school teachers, 
living at the time — April 30, 1822 — near Millersport 
on what is now known as the Martha Henderson farm. 

Jonathan's stay here was short, he having said 
that lie would not give a dollar an acre for such land as 
was about him. The experience of having to pen his 
cows in an enclosure to prevent them becoming mired 
in the swaley lands oi the community, was such that 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 215 

he was very willing to remove, which he did in 1823, 
to the vicinity of Logan, Ohio. 

A few years after living there, his father, Tunis 
Peters came from East Ringgold, Pickaway County, 
to visit him, and died September 24, 1826, at his home. 

On the prevailment of his mother he removed and 
lived with her in Pickaway County, Ohio. 

The ancestor of Mrs. Peters was John Thompson, 
who came from Ireland at the age of sixteen, as a 
stowaway, and upon his arrival at Baltimore he was 
sold for his transportation to the highest bidder. He 
afterward became a wealthy and respected farmer of 
Hampshire County, Virginia. 

In 1844 Mrs. Peters died, leaving a large family 
of children. Jonathan again married, this time a 
widow Harmon, aunt of Dr. G. A. Harmon, of Lan- 
caster, and mother of Amos T. Harmon, of Columbus, 
whom Peters reared to manhood. 

In 1848 Jonathan agam moved to the place upon 
which he died, it being three miles east of Pleasant- 
ville, Ohio, and the place is yet known as the Jonathan 
Peters farm. 

PHILIP PETERS. 

Philip Peters married Mary Ashbrook and settled 
at a very early day in Walnut township, Fairfield 
County. He died and was buried in that township in 
1817, near what is now Millersport. Their daughter, 
Mary, was born January 10, 1812. Left an orphan 
at five years, she was taken into the family of her 
uncle, Peter McGee. In February, 1834, she was 
married to John Pittsford, of Granville. They settled 
in Baltimore, where Pittsford was a merchant. Their 
daughter, Martha, who married Isaac PYickbone, was 
born in the brick house now owned by S. S. Weist in 



216 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

Baltimore. In 1843, Pittsford exchanged his goods 
for a farm near Kirkersville, to which they moved, 
Pittsford died in March, 1847. 

In 1849 Mrs. Pittsford married Myron Merchant, 
who died m June, 1866. In October, 1868, she married 
Alfred Hatch, of Delaware, Ohio, who died in Miay, 
187 1, leaving her a widow for the third time. Mrs. 
Hatch is still living, 89 years of age. The Peters 
stock were long-lived people. 

TUNIS PETERS, SR. 

Tunis Peters, sr., married Francina Adams, and 
they reared a family of 13 children in Hampshire 
county, Virginia. We have written briefly of Jonathan 
and Philip and will now mention others of the family. 
James Peters married his cousin, Nancy Peters, 
Samuel Peters married his cousin, Amelin Peters, 
Abigail Peters married Aaron Ashbrook, Deborah 
Peters married Michael Blue, Katie Peters married 
Reverend Eli Ashbrook, who moved to Licking 
County, Ohio; Tunis Peters, jr., married Eve Glaze 
and settled in Franklin County. The Peters Dash 
Company was owned by his sons, of Columbus, Ohio; 
Gersham Peters married Susan Glaze and settled in 
Franklin County ; Parmelia Peters married William 
Ashbrook and they settled in Amanda township, Fair- 
field County, Ohio; John Peters married Cynthia 
Biddle and settled in Pickaway County, Ohio; Absa- 
lom Peters married Phama Sarsher and settled near 
E. Ringgold, Pickaway County, Ohio. 

THE KAGYS OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY 

The vShenndoah Valley, of Virginia, was settled 
largely by Pennsylvania people, both English and 
German speaking people. They emigrated from 



Of Fairiield County, Ohio. 217 

Berks, Lancaster and York Counties, Pennsylvania. 
There were Mennonites, Dunkers and Primitive Bap- 
tists among- them. From the year 1806 to 1840, in 
almost every year many families came from that 
valley to Fairfield County. Samuel and Reverend 
John Wiseman, Abraham Winters, the Millers, Mur- 
phys, Ashbrooks, Beerys, Freeds and hundreds of 
other families all came from that splendid valley. 

Of the many families referred to, none were larger 
or more highly respected than the Kagys. They were 
a hardy race, descended from hardy Swiss ancestors. 
But few of this large family now reside in Fairfield, 
for as the children grew to years of maturity, they 
married and either moved north to Seneca and Han- 
cock Counties or to Marion, Cumberland and Effing- 
ham Counties, Illinois. This family produced many 
men of considerable prominence and ability, farmers, 
lawyers, doctors, ministers, teachers and merchants. 

Honorable John Seitz, of Seneca County, was the 
son of Lewis Seitz, whose wife was a Kagy. 

Rudolph Kagy, a native of Switzerland, came first 
to Pennsylvania. From there he moved to the valley ot 
Virginia, and lie was the founder of the family that 
came to the county in 1833 and settled in Rushcreek. 

CHRISTIAN KAGY, 

Son of Rudolph, the second, was born September 14, 
1 77 1, in Pennsylvania, and went to Virginia in 1781. 
He was married to Mary Bibler in 1796; they were 
the parents of ten children. He moved to Fairfield 
County in 18 18 and died September 3, 1831. 

Lewis B. Kagy once lived on the Goldthwait farm 
in Walnut township, and was the oldest son. He was 
born January 15, 1798. October 9, 1823, he married 



218 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

Francina Ashbrook. He died May 12, 1872, in Illi- 
nois ; his wife lived to be 93 years of age and died in 
Illinois, April 2y, 1897. They were the parents of 
seven children. 

Abigail died in infancy. 

Aaron was born April 2, 1826. He married Eliza 
Mauk, of Walnut township ; they now reside at McCool 
Junction, Nebraska. For five years, beginning in 1850, 
Aaron Kagy was the largest and busiest stock buyer 
in Ohio; he drove his cattle in lots of 100 to Baltimore, 
Maryland. He failed in 1854 and involved many of 
his friends. His father and father-in-law endorsed 
for him and their farms were sold to pay his debts. 

Mary Kagy, the oldest daughter, was born May 
II, 1828. She married Jacob M. Walters and with him 
moved to the West ; she now lives, a widow, in Webster 
City, Iowa. 

Laura C. was born March 19, 1832 ; she married 
James T. Church, son of Isaac Church, of Lancaster, 
and now lives, a widow, in Chicago, Illinois. 

John M. Kagy was born April 8, 1834; he mar- 
ried Mary P. Beckwith. He has lived in many parts 
ot the West and now resides at Boseman, Montana. 

Tunis A. was born April 26, 1830; he was 
drowned July 3, 1853, in the Emberras river, IlHnois, 
where he was visiting. 

Rebecca Kagy was born March 4, 1836. Her first 
husband was Benjamin Walters, brother of Jacob M., 
husband of Mary. Her second husband is Moab P. 
Trumbo, to whom she was married February 26, 1856. 
They reside on a fine farm near Ottawa, 111. The three 
daughters of Lewis B. Kagy are good women and 
exceptionally good looking. They were belles 
01 Walnut township. 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 219- 

Francis Kagy, daughter of Christian, was born 
July 20, 1800, in Virginia. She married David Bretz, 
May 19, 1822, by Reverend Snellson. David Bretz 
was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, July 24, 
1798. He was the son of Valentine and Elizabeth 
Bretz. Thev lived near the old home and reared ten 
children. 

Lewis K. Bretz, a son of David, married Elizabeth 
Seitz, February 7, 1849, in Seneca County, Ohio. 

Eliza E. married G. W. Harshbarger, February 
20, 1878. W. J. Bretz is a single man, of Wyandot, 
Ohio. 

Francis A. Bretz married W. J. Stinemetz, No- 
vember 15, 1887. The two last named were daughters 
of Lewis K., who died August 11, 1771. 

Abraham K. Bretz married Mary Ann Perkey, of 
Seneca County, Ohio, August 27, 1854. 

Elizabeth Bretz married Ziba E. Meyers, October 
20, 1844, of Seneca County, Ohio. 

Samuel Bretz, son of David, was born September 
13, 1828. April 14, 1853, he married Anna Seitz, 
daughter of Lewis Seitz. 

One of them, Mr. George A. Bretz, is a Baptist 
preacher, of Albion, Indiana. 

Valentine Bretz, married Sarah A. Telford, Sep- 
tember 2"/, 1855. He died June 11, 1886, from the 
effects of a wound, received at the battle of Stone 
River. One of his sons, residing in Michigan, mar- 
ried a Stinchcomb. 

Mary Bretz married Noah Einsel, of Seneca 
County, Ohio, March 11, 1852. 

Barbara Bretz married Daniel Seitz, of Seneca 
County, Ohio, February 4, 1862. She is now a widow 
and resides in Cleveland, Ohio. 



220 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

Christena Bretz married W. A. Watson, Septem- 
ber I, i860. They reside at Van Buren, Ohio. 

George W. Bretz, son of David Bretz, starved to 
death in Libby Prison, June 26, 1864. 

Abraham B. Kagy, son of Christion, was born 
September 17, 1802. He married Sarah Hall, daughter 
of Daniel Hall, August 11, 1826. A. B. Kagy became 
a distinguished citizen of Findlay, Ohio, and later of 
Ewington, Efifingham county, Illinois. 

Daniel Hall, son of A. B. Kagy. May 16, 1827, 
was the date of his birth. He enlisted in the Thirty- 
fifth Illinois in 1861, and died in the service of his 
country. 

Benjamin F., son of A. B. Kagy, was born Febru- 
ary 27, 1831. He married Martha J. Stams, February 
6, 1853. He filled important positions of honor and 
trust in Effingham County, Illinois. 

Barbara Kagy, daughter of Christian Kagy, was 
born in 1804. She married John Bretz in 1820. They 
were the parents of eleven children. Their son Chris- 
tian was a soldier in the Mexican War. He served as 
a clerk in the State Department at Columbus, Ohio. 
Their son, Simon Peter, was a Union soldier. 

Elizabeth Kagy, daughter of Christian, was born 
December 28, 1807. She married John Hall, son of 
Daniel, who came to Walnut township in 1804. They 
were married March 18, 1828. 

Rebecca Kagy, daughter of Christian, was born 
November 16, 181 1. She was married to James A. Ash- 
brook, November 10, 1836. They were the parents 
of nine children, viz : Lewis K., John Monroe, Abigail 
Ann, Mary Catharine, Maria Amelia, Aaron Tunis, 
Francina Deborah, James Scott and Samuel Clinton. 



Of Fairneld County, Ohio. 221 

Lewis K. married Cyntha Chism. John Monroe 
married Marj^aret Fuller. They reside near Hum- 
bolt, Illinois. Abigail Ann married Robert Groves. 
They are the parents of thirteen children. Mary 
Catharine married Joseph Vance Hill, June i6, 1861. 
They reside at Seward, Nebraska. Mary Amelia mar- 
ried Isaac Bowers, O'f Kansas. 

Frances Deborah, was born April 6, 1849, i" 
Fairfield County, and was married to Lafayette Green, 
March 26, 1867. They now reside near Ottawa, 
Kansas. 

James Scott married Almira Gray. 
Samuel Clinton was born June 17, 1854, in Fair- 
field County, Ohio. He married Sallie C. Brown 
December 23. 1875. He is now the postmaster at 
Humbolt, Illinois. 

Christian Kagy, jr., son of Christian, was born in 
1817, married Nancy Delancy in 183Q, and moved 
to Effingham county, Illinois. 

Samuel Kagy, son of Christian, was born January 
I, 1819, in Ohio. He married Hannah Baker, of Perry 
County, Ohio, February 6, 1840, and moved to Han- 
cock County, Ohio. 

Susan, (laughter of Christian, never married. 
l\u(lol])h Kag\-, lirother of Christian and Jacob, 
was born November 5, 1773. in Berks county, Pennsyl- 
vania, and moved with parents to Virginia, in 1781. 
He married Hannah Siple in 1796. From Rocking- 
ham County, Virginia, he moved to Fairfield County, 
Ohio, in 1 8 19. They were the parents of twelve chil- 
dren, viz: John, Jacob. Christian, Abraham, Catharine, 
Barbara, Hannah. Elizabeth. Mary, Rudolph, Henry 
and Doctor Martin Kagy. Rudolph, sr., died August 
5, 1829. His wife died November 21, 1871. 



"222 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

John was born January ly, 1797. December 3, 
1820, he married Catharine Hite. They first moved 
to Seneca County, Ohio, in 1827, and from there to 
Marion County, IlHnois, where both died at an ad- 
vanced age. John Kagy was a man of abihty and 
high character. He reared a family of ten children. 
His son, Dr. John Kagy, was a distinguished citizen 
of Seneca County, Ohio. 

John Benjamin, son of John, was born January 9, 
1830. In i860 he moved to Salem, Illinois. He 
studied law with Judge Silas L. Bryan, father of Wil- 
liam J. Bryan, and became his partner. He married 
Marietta Black, a native of New York state. They 
were parents of eleven children. 

Levi M. Kagy, son of David Kagy and grandson 
of John, is a lawyer of ability at Salem, Illinois. Levi 
D. Kagy, son of John, was born October 24, 1838. He 
was at one time elected auditor of Seneca County. 
He married Frances Ann Lamberton, and they now 
reside in Fostoria, Ohio. 

Jacob Kagy, son of Rudolph, never married. 

Christian Kagy, son of Rudolph, married Ann 
Hite, daughter of John Hite, and moved to Marion 
County, Illinois. They were the parents of twelve 
children. 

Elizabeth, their eldest child, was born November 
19, 1826. She married Samuel E. Stevenson, May 18, 
1848, and they moved to Marion County, Illinois, 
where Stevenson became a wealthy and prominent 
farmer. 

John Hite Kagy, son of Christian and Anna Hite 
Kagy, married Hannah J. Furry, October 9, 1859. 
Lewis Hite Kagy was a farmer of Marion County, 
Illinois. 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 223 

Hannah, daughter of Christian and Anna Kagy, 
was born May 24, 1838. She married Noah R. Steven- 
son, son of Mordecai. The writer remembers Noah 
as one of his pupils at the Snake Run schoolhouse in 
1849. 

Abraham Kag-y, son of Rudolph, brother of Chris- 
tian and Jacob, was born December 23, 1803 ; he mar- 
ried Barbara Pugh, December 27, 1823. They were 
the parents of fifteen children. They moved at an 
early day to Seneca County, Ohio. 

Catherine Kagy, daughter of Rudolph, was born 
in 1805 ; she married Andrew Hite in 1826. They were 
the parents of thirteen children ; this large family 
moved at an early day to Marion County, Illinois. 

Barbara Kagy, daughter of Rudolph, was born 
November 10, 1807; she married Lewis Seitz, August 
24, 1823, and moved to Seneca County, Ohio. They 
were the parents of fourteen children. 

The Honorable John Seitz was one of their chil- 
dren ; he was born in Seneca County, Ohio ; he mar- 
ried Cecelia J. Hite, of Marion County, Ohio. 

John Seitz was a reader and a man of ability ; he 
served in both branches of the Ohio Legislature and 
was in 1880 the Greenback candidate for Governor of 
Ohio. He obtained notoriety and was well known to 
all Ohio politicians. Two daughters of Lewis Seitz 
married into the Bretz family of Seneca Coimty. 

Lewis Seitz died July 12, 1890. 

Hannah Kagy, daughter of Rudolph, was born in 
1 81 2, in Virginia. She married John Crooks, of Berne 
township, this county ; the}- were the parents of nine 
children. Hannah died at the age of 42 }ears and 
John Crooks in 1895 at the age of 92 years. 



224 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

Mrs. Henry Bumg-ardner, of Berne, is one of the 
daughters. 

EHzabeth, daughter of Rudolph Kagy, was born 
in 1813. She married John Beaver. One of their 
daughters married Edward Turner, of Richland 
township, and they were the parents of eleven children. 

Mary Kagy, daughter of Rudolph, was born Janu- 
ary 8, 1814; she married Hesekiah Kanode, December 
12, 1833. 

Rudolph Kagy, son of Rudolph, was born Feb- 
ruary 18, 1818; he married Anna Seitz, December 
16, 1838. They moved to Seneca County, Ohio. 

Their son Abraham was a capable man, a Union 
soldier, and filled several positions of honor and trust. 

Henry Kagy, son of Rudolph, was born March 10, 
1821, and moved to Seneca c«unty, Ohio, in 1837; 
he married Phoebe Miller. 

Doctor Martin Kagy was the sevenih son and 
youngest child of Rudolph Kagy; he was born August 
20, 1825; he married Christena A\'alters. He was a 
teacher and studied medicine : he practiced medicine 
a year or two, and was then elected clerk of the 
Common Pleas Court, Fairfield County. This ended 
his career as a i)hysician and politics spoiled what 
might nthcrwise have been a useful and profitable 
career. He died August 24, 1898. With this we close 
the sketch of Rudolph and Hanna Siple Kagy. 

Jacob Kagy, son of Rudolph second, of Virginia, 
and brother of Christian and Rudolph, was born No- 
vember 3, 1776, in Shenandoah County, Virginia; he 
married Rebecca Bibler, a sister of Christian's wife, 
April, 1810; he came with his family to Fairfield 
County, and settled in Walnut township in the year 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 225 

1818; They were the parents of five children, Barbara, 
John, Isaac, Jerretha and Lewis. 

Barbara was born August 23, 1812; she married 
Daniel Rinehart, of Walnut, in January, 1837. They 
were the parents of six children. Daniel Rinehart 
moved about 1840 to Effingham County, Illinois, 
wdiere he became a prominent merchant and a popular 
and useful citizen. Three of his sons are men of 
prominence and two of them lawyers. 

John Kagy was born September 15, 1844; his first 
wife was Isabelle Stevenson; his second wife was Mary 
Jane Camp. Late in life he moved to Marion County, 
Illinois, where he died November 22, 1878. He left 
seven children. 

Issac Kagy, son of Jacob, died unmarried in 1852. 
in the state of Illinois. 

Jerretha Kagy was born July 1, 1824, and married 
David Grove, September 2, 1851. They were the 
parents of eight children. She died November 5, 1895. 

Lewis Kagy, son of Jacob, was born August 18, 
1831 ; in 1851 he married Julia Spitler; he died March, 
1886. 

Jacob Kagy was all of liis life one of the best 
men of \\'alnut lownsliip; he was one of the pillars 
of the Primitive T.aptist church. liis memory is 
precious to all who knew him. Hicre are but few of 
the names of Kagy, Bretz, Spitler and Ashbrook 
remaining in this county, but Seneca County, Hancock 
County, Ohio, Effingham County, Illinois, and Marion 
County, Illinois, gained what Fairfield lost, viz., hun- 
dreds of good citizens, men of character and ability. 

Christian R. Kagy, son of Rudolph Kagy and 
grandson of Henry Kagy, of Shenandoah county, Vir- 
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226 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

ginia, came to Fairfield County, in 1833, and settled 
in Rushcrcck township. He was born December 13, 
1795, and in 1824 he married Barbara Blosser. By 
this marriage he had one dauiihter, Barbara. His first 
wife died soon after their marriage and in 1827 he 
was again married to Barbara Hoffman. By this 
marriage six children were born to him, viz. : Rudolph, 
Frederick, Franklin, David, John and Christian C. 

His daughter, Barbara, married Elijah Brandt, of 
Rushcreek township, March 19, 1845. 

Their son, David, married Rachacl Wilson and 
resides west of Bremen, Ohio. 

Mary Brandt married Enos Young, February 9, 
1869. 

Christopher Brandt married Maria E. Westen- 
berger. October 5, 1875. They are the parents of 
twelve children. 

Lewis M. married Arminda J. Page, February 25, 

1875- 

Rndolph Kagy, the eldest son of Christian R. 
Kagy, was born October 27, 1828, in Page County, 
Virginia, and married Annie Alexander, May 19, 1857, 
a sister of Mrs. Robert J. Black. Two children were 
born to this couple. Nettie T. Kagy, born February 
2T, i86r. She was educated at the Pleasantville Acad- 
emy and a( the Female Seminary, Oxford. Ohio. She 
was married to John .\. Gravett, of Lancaster, Ohio, 
December 5, t888. They reside at Salida, Colorado. 

James Josiah Kngy was born Jul\- 9, 1863. He 
was ediicalcd at tlie i ']t'asanl\ilU' Academy and at 
Dayton, ( )hi(), Ma>' 17, 1893, he was married to Ida 
M. iM'slirr. The)- reside on a farm near Pleasantville. 

Rii(loli)h Kagv died Jidv 2S, 1S.S9. He had lived 
the life of a farmer in I'\'iirfield CouiUy for 59 years. 



Of Fairfield Counly, Ohio. 227 

At the time of his death he was a member of the 
Fairfield County Ai;ricultural Board. He was a good 
citizen and highly esteemed by all who knew him. 

Frederick Kagy, son of Christian R., was born 
February 8, 1830. lie lived with his brother, Rudolph, 
and died at his home, April 3, 1890. 

Franklin Kagy, son of Christian K., was born 
July 24, 1831, and January 20, 1853, married Ellen 
Jane Alexander. They were the parents of eleven 
children. They were active and prominent members 
of Ijethel Presbyterian church in Rushcreek township. 

Their son, Harrison B., lives west of Bremen, 
Oliio. Their daughter Maggie Ann, married Thomas 
A. Pugh, one of the clear-headed educated farmers 
of Greenfield township. 

John Williams, their son. was born November 28, 
1859. He was educated at the Ohio Normal School, 
Ada, Ohio. xA.fter teaching acceptably for many years, 
he engaged in farming. In the year 1885, he mar- 
ried Jennie Stuart, of near Bremen. 

Ella Dora, their daughter, married George 
McCandish, of Rushcreek. 



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228 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

of ilicni at tlie Pleasantville Academy and the Normal 
School, of Ada, Ohio. This is an educated cultured 
Christian family, an honor to Rushcreek and the name 
they hear. 

Christian C. Kagy, son of Christian R., was born 
March lo, 1837; he was a veteran Union soldier. He 
married Maria J. Stuart, sister of his brother's wife. 
He was a soldier of the Sixty-second Ohio, and, broken 
in health, he died July, 1.897. 

\"iri;inia, Tennessee, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and 
Kansas were enriched by the blood of the Kagy family. 
There were and are many able and distinguished men 
in the connection. The best known and ablest man 
with Kagy l)loo(l in his veins, was the late Thomas F. 
Rayard, of Delaware, whose mother was a desccndent 
of a Kagv. Of this large and extraordinary family, 
full}- three-fourths were members of the Primitive 
Raptist church. There are however, Methoflists, 
I'resbx terians, Cougrcgalionalists, Reforms, Dunkers 
and Mennonites among them. 

The w riter of this sketch knew man\- of them and 
bad access to an exhaustive liistory of tlie Kagy family 
bv braukliu ixagw of C'liambersburg, renns}lvania. 
Auua ilite, druigbter of S(|uire lohn llite, who 
resided just west of the old school Raptist church in 
l'!ea^ant township, married Christian Kagy. 

Catherine llite, a sister of Scpiire John ITite, mar- 
ried h)lui Kagv. a son of Rudolph Kagy. 

S(|u.ire bihn llite, was a first cousin of Reverend 
John llite, the father of .Sauuiel and Jacob Hite, of 
Lancaster, ( )hio. John Henry Kagy, of one branch 
of this familv. died with ''old John Brown." 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 229 

THE RUFFNER FAMILY 

One of the famous old pioneers of Fairfield County 
was Emanuel Ruffner. He was born and brought up 
in Shenandoah County, Va., and there he married 
Elizabeth Grove. 

He belono-ed to a very large and highly respected 
A^irginia family — a family more or less distinguished 
in that state. One of the Ruffners was a man of 
fine education and culture, and an author of some 
repute and was well known at Richmond. 

One of the family was in early times a proprietor 
of the great salt works at Charleston, the same where 
Senator Ewing earned the money to put himself 
through college. The descendants of this man still 
live in Charleston, and two of them are large wholesale 
grocers of that city. The principal hotel is called the 
Ruffner. 

Emanuel Ruffner came with his family to Ohio in 
1805 and settled on the land now owned by his grand- 
son and daughter, William Friend and wife, one and 
one-half miles from West Rushville, Fairfield County. 
He came there when the Murpheys, Ijams. Wilsons, 
Rowles, Teals and Stevensons were his only neighbors 
— all distinguished as early pioneers of that vicinity. 
He was a teamster in the Revolutionary War and his 
son John drove a team for him in the war of 181 2. 

Emanuel Ruffner was a man of force and integ- 
rity, a good citizen and a very useful member of 
society. He reared a large and interesting family ; 
his tlaughters were exceptionally fine women and 
married good men and reared large families. 

His son John married Mary Rhodes and settled 
on a farm on the south fork of Licking, in Licking 



230 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

County, Ohio, where he Hved and died. His sons 
were farmers. David has been dead some years ; John 
still resides upon a farm near Hebron, O. He had 
but one daughter and she resides in the same vicinity. 
John Ruffner's farm contained five hundred acres. 

Jacob Rufitner, son of Emanuel, married Magda- 
lene Bibler. He lived upon a farm near the Stevenson 
camp ground. His son Jonas married Susan Rhodes 
and they lived upon a portion of the home farm. His 
sons were Jacob, Joseph, Levi and Noah. Jacob was 
the famous soldier of the 17th Ohio, known to all the 
old boys as "Kate" Ruffner, a name not soon to be 
forgotten — not while a i/tli veteran lives. Joseph 
resides upon the old home farm. 

A daughter of Jonas married A. M. Stewart ; Sarah 
married Jacob \last ; Emeline married John Frey ; 
Rebecca married John Ilarman. 

Isaac Ruffner, son of Jacob, Sr.. married Miss 
Stuart of Rushcreek township. His son David mar- 
ried a Miss Harman and they moved to A'lercer 
County, O. Stewart Ruffner, the teacher, married a 
daughter of Hiram McNaghton and lives in Richland 
township, a respected and useful man. Thomas Ruft'- 
ncr, son of Isaac, is a hopeless invalid. Edward mar- 
ried Minnie Shaw, daugliter of J. W. Shaw, and lives 
on the old home farm. ■Mary, daughter of Isaac, 
married Caleb Copcland"s son. 

Jacob Ruffner, son of Jacob, Sr., married a daugh- 
ter of Caleb Copeland. Their son Caleb married a 
daughter of Reuben Phillips. Maria married in Del- 
aware County, Ohio, George Ruffner married in Perry 
County, Ohio. William married a Miss Zink and they 
live in Sugar Grove. Ohio ; Clara married Jacob Biggs, 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 231 

and they live in Morrow county, Ohio; Eliza married 
William Geiger and they live in Licking County, Ohio. 

Cynthia Ruffner married John Hanover and they 
live in Morrow County, Ohio. Margaret married 
Thomas Beery and they live in Pleasant township, 
Ohio. Ola married Ira Spitler and they live on the 
Freed farm in Pleasant. 

Barbara, daughter of Jacob Ruffner, Sr., married 
David Tussing and they moved to Findlay, Ohio; 
Magdalene married John Holliday of Rushcreek ; 
Anna married William Cruit of Perry County, Ohio; 
Rebecca married Samuel Swartz ; Mary married John 
Henthorn ; Emily married Jesse Rowles and recently 
died in Bremen, Ohio. 

Emanuel Ruffner, son of Emanuel, married Bar- 
bara Harshbarger. He was a fine blacksmith and lived 
many years near New Salem. His weight was far in 
excess of 300 pounds. Late in life he moved with his 
family to Cumberland County, 111., near the town of 
Greenup. 

Colonel Joseph Ruffner, son of Emanuel, Jr., mar- 
ried Rhoda Davis of Licking County, Ohio. He lived 
a long life on the old Ruffner farm in Richland. He 
was one of a half dozen old Virginia gentlemen who 
often met in Lancaster and spent a social afternoon. 
No one who ever knew him can forget his courtly 
manners and gentlemanly bearing. He was every 
inch a gentleman and a good and useful man. He 
reared two daughters. They married brothers, John 
and William Friend, who were the sons of another 
grand old man of Richland, Jonas Friend. They in- 
herited the old Ruffner homestead and have lived 
upon it and are prosperous farmers. An old elm tree 
is one of the landmarks of this old place ; its spreading 



282 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

branches cover a space of ground 104 feet in diameter. 
The honored dead He in a handsome spot near the 
elm tree. 

Barbara Rufifner, daughter of Emanuel, Sr., mar- 
ried David Pence in Virginia and came to Ohio in 
1807, carrying their infant daughter, the future Mrs. 
T. P. Ashbrook, resting upon a pillow, they being on 
horseback. They spent the winter in a cabin on the 
Ruflfner place, and in the spring moved to their new 
home, in the woods, where the Peters family now 
live, on Indian creek. David Pence was a fine farmer, 
and he reared a large family. He v^^as a stanch mem- 
ber of the Baptist church. On one occasion Rev. 
George DeBolt, a long-winded preacher, spoke two and 
one-half hours. Pence got tired of it and rose to leave 
the church. 

DeBolt called out: "P.rother Pence, can't you lis- 
ten as long as I can talk?" 

Pence replied: "Enough is enough of anything. 
I am going to feed mv horses." 

Aaron Pence, the oldest son, married a Miss Hand, 
near He1)ron. O. ; Joseph married a sister of Aaron's 
wife. Annie married Tunis P. Ashbrook. Elenor 
married for her first husband Benjamin Miller; the 
second was George Shoemaker. She is the mother 
of Mrs. J. C Hite of Lancaster and lives with her, 
now 93 years of age. Mary married Jacob Staker 
and they moved to Plancock, where they are now 
wealthy people. Rebecca married David Fall and 
they moved many years since to Jones County, Iowa. 
Eli.^abeth m.arried Abraham Spitler and they have 
always lived in Pleasant. Seville married S. P. Wea- 
ver and moved to Putnam Countv, where Weaver has 



Of Fairfi.eld County, Ohio. 233 

been a very prominent citizen. Sophia married George 
Miller and moved to Iowa. 

David Pence, Jr., married Henrietta Pugh of Wal- 
nut township. David was a teacher when a young 
man, but since his marriage he has been a farmer. 
As a citizen no man stands higher in this county and 
he has but few equals as a good farmer. ?Ie once 
took the Fair prize for the best ten acres of corn, run- 
ning above loo bushels to the acre. Mrs. J. S. Sites 
of this city is his only daughter. Mr. Pence is a 
reader and a very intelligent man. In early life he 
was a Democrat, but the effort to enslave Kansas made 
him a Republican. A physical infirmity prevented 
his being a soldier, but he has unbounded admiration 
for the veterans. 

:Mary, daughter of Emanuel Ruffner, married Wil- 
liam Hill, a prominent citizen of Walnut township. 
She died in a year or two after marriage in the year 
1829. Her only child. John R. Hill, now living in 
Pleasantvillc, owns tbiC farm she inherited from her 
father, on Indian Creek. John married an Ashbrook. 
Ann Ruffner married Thomas Kraner and they 
lived on the farm given them by Emanuel Ruffner. 
Their son Joseph married Elizabeth Geiger ; Emanuel 
married Elenor Ashbrook; Susan Kranor married 
Benjamin Warner, but did not live many years, when 
Warner married a Miss Miller. Eli Rowles, a prom- 
inent citizen of Pleasantville, married a daughter of 
P^manuel Kraner. 

Magdalene Ruffner, daughter of Emanuel, married 
Christian Baker, a remarkable couple in many respects. 
Christian Raker represented this county in the Ohio 
Legislature two terms. He was not distinguished for 
abilitv beyond good common sense, but a purer or 



284 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

more conscientiously honest man never served in any 
legislature. 

Their daughter Mahala married David Smith, and 
they moved to Greenup, 111. Louisa married William 
Risler and they moved to the same neighborhood. 
Mary Ann married H. B. Eyman, once a very prom- 
inent citizen of Richland township. His sons have 
become well known business and professional men. 
Christian Baker Eyman is a farmer of Walnut and 
made a good run for commissioner recently- Lou 
Eyman is a druggist of Lancaster, Ohio ; Dr. Eyman 
is superintendent of the Cleveland, Ohio, Lunatic 
Asylum, and enjoys some distinction. 

Susan Baker married Owen IMcNaghten of Walnut 
township ; Rebecca married Lewis Collins, now a res- 
ident of the state of Illinois. 

Samantha married Thomas Clayton. Samuel 
Baker, the eldest son, married Miss Rinehart. 

Emanuel Ruffner Pence Baker married Louisa 
Ston.eburner. He studied law in Lancaster and lived 
here a few years. But he did not make a success of 
the law and abandoned it for the drug business in 
Th.ornville. C). While living there he was elected a 
member of the Ohio Legislature and served two 
terms. Baker was a very clever man. He reared a 
family. One son is manager of the Peruna Drug Co. 
owned by the wealthy patent medicine man of Colum- 
bus, Dr. Hartman. Baker's long name gave him an- 
noyance at times. It was often the subject of jest. 
The bad boys called him many nicknames. 

Susan Ruffner, daughter of Emanuel, married 
Daniel Keller. Keller became a very remarkable man, 
distinguished for his good common sense, rare judg- 
ment and fine business qualities. His integrity was 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 



235 



never questioned nor his honor smirched. He rep- 
resented this county in the Ohio Legislature in 1849 
and voted with his party for Chase for Senator and 
for the repeal of the black laws. He served as a 
trustee of the Ohio State University and his vote 
determined the location on the Neil farm, north of 
Columbus. His chief reason for favoring that par- 
ticular farm was owing to a fine spring on the prem- 
ises. This spring was strong enough for farm pur- 
poses, but soon became inadequate for a college. 

The late Hon. V. B. Horton, who was one of his 
associates, is authority for the above statement. 

Daniel Keller owned several faims and all had 
good springs of good water. He was the bosom 
friend of Gov. Medill, by whom he was highly 
esteemed. He was a great partisan, a Democrat of 
the old school. By the time he became an old man 
there had l^een great changes in parties and party 
principles and his living sons and grandsons were 
active working Republicans. 

Daniel Keller and wife were the parents of ten 
children. 

Simon married Ellen Sites of Pleasant township. 
He died in the prime of life. His son married a 
daughter of John Beery and lives near Bremen, Ohio. 
Joseph married iVIary Lamb, daughter of Peter 
Lamb. He died in the prime of life. Mrs. Sb.owalter 
of Lancaster is a daughter. Emanuel married a 
daughter of Reuben Emick, who lived at one time 
on the farm now owned by David Pence. Emanuel 
Keller has been for many years a farmer in Missouri. 
David Pence Keller married a McFarland, and 
moved to Illinois, where he prospered. He is now a 
banker and a man of means. He is a prominent cit- 



236 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

izen and a very intelligent man. He at one time 
represented his county in the legislature of Illinois 

Augustus Ruffner Keller married a McFarland. 
He was a man of many accomplishments and a gen- 
tleman highly esteemed for his ability and many good 
qualities. 

Catharine, daughter of Daniel Keller, married J. 
R. Shaver ; they moved many years ago to LaSalle 
County, 111., where Shaver has been a prosperous 
farmer. 

Sophia married John Caldwell and settled on a 
farm near the old home. 

Laura married Jonas Kite ; they lived on a farm 
near the Baptist church in Pleasant township. Tliey 
were the parents of Levi Hite. the attorney. 

Martha A. married William L. Rigby, a farmer, 
but late probate judge of Fairfield County. Susan 
married William Aledill, a nephew of Governor W'il- 
Ham Medill, of Lancaster, O. Mr. Medill is the 
owner of good farms and he understands their man- 
agement. He now resides in Lancaster, but his farms 
are not neglected. 

Emanuel Rufifner, the ancestor of the large family 
sketched above, lived to be 91 years of age and died 
June 4. 1848. 

His first wife, Magdalene, died November, 1822, 
aged 65 years. 

His second wife. Elizabeth, died December i, 1842, 
aged 6t, years. 

Elizabeth, daughter of Emanuel Rufl-'ner, married 
'M. Garner: she died in Pleasantville in i860. 

There was a large Rufifner connection in the old 
neighborhood, all related to Emanuel, but the exact 
relationship we cannot state. 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 237 

Benjamin Ruffner. Sr., lived on what has since 
been known as the Augustus R. Keller farm. He 
was the father of David. Benjamin and Noah Rufifner. 
Noah lived and died on the old farm. He married a 
daughter of Jonas Friend. David lived near Millers- 
port and was for many }-ears a prominent man. He 
married his cousin, a daughter of Daniel Rufifner. 
Benjamin married a daugiiter of William Lamb. He 
was a great business man and very prominent sixty 
years ago. He ran a large whiskey distillery for 
several years at Hebron, Ohio. He finally failed in 
business, moved west' and settled on a farm near 
Fort Wayne, Ind. 

THE ROWLES FAMILY 

This family was of English and Scotch origin, but 
the exact date of their coming to America is not known. 
William Rowles is the earliest name found upon Eng- 
lish records. He was born July 9, 1682, and died Nov. 
17, 1750. Flis son Christopher Rowles, was born May 
9. 1708. This record was found in a bible printea in 
London in 17 16. John Rowles the immediate ancesrer 
c.{ the Fairfield family, lived near Baltimore. Md. He 
was born .\])ril 1 1, 1734 and died aged 67 years, in 1804. 
The name of his wife was Sarah. They had four sons 
and several daughters. Jesse. Jacob, Nicholas and 
William were the sons. Jesse and William came to 
Ohio in 1803. William lived a few years with Jesse; 
then returned to Maryland and married Sarah Cham- 
berlain. He returned to Ohio and lived until 1838 in 
Franklin County, when he moved to Missouri, where 
he died in October, 1854. His son, Reuben, lives in 
Missouri and John in California. His daughters, Mary, 
Ann, and Eliza, married brothers, named Barbee of 



238 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

Grove City, O. Of this family was ex-Sheriff Barbee, 
who married Joseph Leib's daughter. 

Jesse Rowles was born in BaUimore county, Md., 
Nov. 9, 1772. He married Ehzabeth Murphey, daugh- 
ter of Rev. John Murphey, and Esther, his wife, March 
2y, 1798. She was born June 2, 1777, and died in Bre- 
men, Nov. II, 1843. Jesse Rowles died ]May 7, 1835. 
Jesse Rowles came to Fairfield County with his family 
in 1803 and settled on a quarter section of John Mur- 
phey's land, since known as the Spence farm. Here 
he gave his attention to farming, making an occasional 
trip to Baltimore with a freight team. George Clum, 
an old wagoner, was often in his company. In early 
life he was a millwright and worked on the big mills at 
Ellicott's mills, Maryland. 

Jesse Rowles was an Episcopalian, and he never 
united with any church in this county. He lived a 
good life and reared a good family. Their descendants 
are very numerous and all Christian people. Rev. J. F. 
Kemper, of Seward, Neb., is a Methodist and a grand- 
son, one we hope, worthy to wear the mantle of John 
Murphey. There are numerous teachers in the family, 
good business men, good farmers. 

THE DAUGIITI^^S. 

Ara1)clla Ivowles, was l)orn Julv 14, 1817. She 
married her cousin. Theodore Murphey, April 9, ic<42. 
Slie was the mother of a family of children mentioned 
in the Murphey sketch. 

Lydia Rowles was born in Pennsylvania, January 
25, 1799, ant] died in Bremen at her sister's home, Mrs. 
King, in 1853. ^'^^ never married. 

Charlotte, daughter of Jesse and Elizabeth Rowles, 
married Morris Smith, of Thorn township, Perry 
County, Ohio, March 24, 1844. Smith came at an 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 289 

early day from Stamford, Conn. He was a typical 
Yankee, plain, frugal and intelligent. He was a good 
farmer, fond of horticulture and a great reader. He 
was thoroughly well informed and while working his 
farm and rearing a family of eight children, studied 
medicine for the pure love of learning. His children 
inherited his tastes and formed an interesting family. 
Their mother was an excellent woman, fond of her 
children and her home. Everet, lives in Nebraska, 
James M., at New Salem, and Mary and sister in Del- 
aware, Ohio. Mr. Smith was born July ly, 1814. and 
died July 14, 1893. 

Althea was born August 31. She married Asa 
Kemper, April 20, 1843. a most excellent man of near 
Thornville. Perry County. (Jhio. Mrs. Kemper died 
October i. 1861. They educated their family of three 
children. Mrs. Abbie Tillotson lives at Table Rock, 
Neb., and Rev. James F. Kemper at Seward, Nebraska. 

Elizabeth was born December 6, 1806. She married 
Thomas King of Rushville. Mr. King and she were 
married in 1828. He died in 1832. In 1853, the 
widow married H. Barbee, of Grove City, and moved 
with him to Prospect, Marion County, where she died 
May 3, 1887. Barbee is living in Columbus, 84 years 
of age. ^Fary ]\I. King, of Westerville. is the only 
living descendant of Elizabeth A. Rowles.. 

Mary Ellen Rowles was born December. 1819. and 
died in 1834. She was unmarried. Sarah Louisa, a 
teacher , never married. She was born May 7, 1809, 
and died Nov. 9, 1842. 

John Murphey Rowles was born September 2^,, 
1804, on the Spence farm. — He married Mary Ann 
Morrow in 1829. She was born in Mifflin County, Pa., 
February 15, 1809. He was a farmer and moved upon 



240 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

his farm, north of Bremen in 1830. They reared and 
educated ten children. For many years he was a wag- 
oner and drove a six horse team with produce to Bal- 
timore, returning with goods. The merry music of the 
bells cheered him on his way. He died July 10, 1878. 
His was a Christian home and his family a happy one. 
His children were wont to gather a'bout him before the 
old fashioned fireplace and hear the story of his trips 
to old Baltimore. Death has since made sad inroads 
upon his once happy circle and those joyous occasions 
are only a memory to those that are left. 

His daughter, Mrs. Johnson, died Sept. 27, 1882. 
Florence died May 30, 1890; Adelia died January, 
1898. Mrs. Ellen Kelsey lives near Bremen ; Caroline, 
who married R. D. Grant, lives in Grove City', Mrs. 
Jennie Shelhamer in Bremen. 

James R. Rowles lives in Pulaski county, Indiana. 

John Rowles was a member of Company C, Cap- 
tain John Wiseman's Co., 46th Ohio. He was 24 years 
of age when he enlisted. He was killed early in the 
morning of the first day, April 6, 1862, in the battle of 
Shiloh. Fifteen of his comrades fell upon that fatal 
field (^f battle. "Tb.e Southland holds their dreamless 
dust" and the mocking birds sing their requiem. Cap- 
tain and comrades are all together now. 

'• On fame's eternal campinjj; ground, 
Their silent tents are spread." 

John Rowles was first sergeant and favorite of his 
company. He was a fine, manly, generous fellow, and 
as brave and gallant a soldier as ever carried a mus- 
ket. 

His voice is no more heard in the happy homes of 
Rushcreek, but his memory is fondly cherished by 
manv loving: hearts. 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 241 

" Brave boys were they, 
Gone at their country's call." 

William, son of Jesse and Elizabeth Rowles, was 
born January 5, 1802, in the State of Maryland. He 
was brought to Ohio in 1803. He was brought up to 
farming, and when old enough he was entrusted with 
his father's team of six horses and carried produce to 
Baltimore and returned loaded with goods for Rush- 
ville merchants. Just when he ceased to be a wagoner 
we cannot state. January 13, 1826, he was married to 
Maria Stuart of Rushcreek township. 

They settled upon a tract of land, since known as 
the Kelsey farm, once owned by Daniel Kelsey. In a 
short time they moved further down Rushcreek to 
what is known as the beaver dam, below the present 
town of Bremen. There he devoted his time, prin- 
cipally to raising tobacco, then the great staple of Rush- 
creek farms. 

The farmers of Rushcreek sold their product to 
Joseph Ijams & Bros., West Rushville, or to William 
Coulson of Rushville, then great merchants. This to- 
bacco was taken east by great wagons, or by the Ohio 
Canal from Baltimore, Ohio. Both firms had branches 
and warehouses at the latter place. 

This tobacco trade was a great boon to the farmers, 
and enabled hundreds to pay their debts and secure 
titles to their farms. In the end many good farmers 
were heavy losers by the disastrous failure of both 
firms. 

George Beery and Hedges, in 1835, opened a store 
in the new village of Bremen, then but recently laid 
out by Beery. John Ashbaugh was a merchant later, 
as were the sons of George Beery, Isaac, Brooks and 

16 



242 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

Simon. The tobacco they purchased was shipped by- 
canal from Lancaster. John HolHday was kept busy 
for weeks at a time hauHng their hogsheads to Lan- 
caster. 

Conestoga teams came from Baltimore with goods 
and returned loaded with produce. The last one seen 
in Bremen was driven by a negro slave from Baltimore. 

His master had agreed to free him at a certain time 
if he proved faithful and true and give him the team 
and wagon. He had but two years to serve when he 
came to Bremen. He drove a splendid team of heavy 
bay horses, six in number. He rested them for a week 
in Bremen. He then put on an extra load — 10,000 
pounds of bacon cured by John Ashbaugh. The entire 
population turned out to see the team pull up Rush- 
creek hill. He rested them for a moment at the foot. 
Took each horse by the bridle and touched him with 
his whip, and mounted the saddle horse, pulled the 
line and they moved like clock work, without a break 
or stop to the top of the hill. 

William Rowles and wife while living at Beaver 
Dam, about the year 1832, joined the Presbyterian So- 
ciety at Bethel, four miles southeast of Bremen, under 
the pastorate of Rev. Francis Bartlett. In 1836 he 
purchased the farm of Ralph Cherry, who married the 
youngest daughter of Joseph Leib, Sr., the same farm 
where Thompson Rowles recently lived. Upon this 
farm he continued to live up to the date of his death, 
which event occurred, September 9, 1863. His wife 
■outlived him thirteen years — dying at the age of 63 
years. 

He reared and educated a family of children, an 
honor to their name and their township. After the 
organization of the Bremen Presbyterian church, Octo- 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 243 

ber 21, 1844, Wm. Rowles and wife changed their 
membership from Bethel to Bremen. Of this new 
church, Wm. Rowles, John Ashbaugh and Daniel Rode- 
hafer were the first elders. 

William and Elizabeth Rowles were the parents of 
eleven children, eight sons and three daughters. Jesse, 
the eldest, married Emily Ruffner, a sister of Jonas 
Rufifner and a daughter of Jacob Ruffner. They lived 
upon a farm until recently and reared a family of 
children. Mrs. Rowles died Eebruary 2, 1899, aged 66 
years. A daughter married the late J. J. Elder. Their 
son, Jesse A., married a daughter of Dr. Rankin. Jesse 
Rowles now lives in Bremen. A daughter married 
Dr. Driver. 

John S. Rowles married Elizabeth Larimer, 
daughter of Wright Larimer, once a leading man in 
Rushcreek. They lived upon a farm south of Bremen. 
John S. died in 1897. He had a family of nine chil- 
dren. Wm. Rowles married Rebeccah Larimer, a 
daughter of Isaac Larimer, once a prominent man of 
the county. His first wife was Margaret Orndorf. 
They live upon a fine farm in Pleasant. They are the 
parents of nine children. David Rowles married Mary 
Holliday. They are both dead. The wife was a 
daughter of Zebulon Holliday. Charles Rowles mar- 
ried Elizabeth Ashbaugh, a daughter of Wm. Ash- 
baugh. They live upon a farm near Bremen. They 
reared a family of eight children. Thompson Rowles 
married Rebecca Holliday, a daughter of John Holli- 
day. The\- spent many }ears on the old home place. 
One of their (laughters married a son of John Q. A. 
Blue. 

Isaac Rowles married Ella Lehman. The wife died 
some years since. Isaac owns a fine farm near F)re- 



244 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

men. His second wife was Rebecca R. Musser, 
daughter of David Musser. 

Eli Rowles. in 1872, married Ann M. Kraner, 
grand-daughter of Tunis P. Ashbrook. She died about 
one year since. They Hved in Pleasantville. Eli has 
been for some years a grain merchant. He received a 
good big vote for County Clerk. 

Mary Jane Rowles married Edward Thompson. 
She has been dead for some years. 

Emily Rowles married D. S. Black. She is also 
numbered among the dead. 

Sarah E. Rowles did not marry. She died at the 
age of seventeen. 

Thompson and Jesse Rowles married Baptist wives 
and they are now of that faith. Every third Sunday, 
though living eight miles from the church, finds them 
with their families in their pews. The other members 
of the family are of the faith of their parents, Presby- 
terians. 

RUSH CREEK PRESBYTERIANS 

Rev. Charles Work and his brother, distinguished 
Presbyterian clergymen, were brought up at old Bethel. 
A plow boy at the head of the first church of Cincin- 
nati is something for Bethel to be proud of. Dis- 
tinguished lawyers, distinguished clergymen and 
merchants honor the names of both Bethel and Rush- 
creek — Leib, Work, Davis and Beery. 

We must refer more fully to the Presbyterians of 
Rushcreek. In 1803 missionary workers of the associ- 
ate Reform Presbyterians came from Kentucky and 
held services in a tent. A church was soon built just 
over the line of Pleasant, two and one-half miles west 
of Rushville and south of Maysville pike one-half mile. 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 245 

In later years this society was known as the United 
Presbyterians, most of its members were Rushcreek 
people. They still sing Psalms, but have introduced 
modern music on account of their children. 

Rev. John Wright, organized the Rushcreek society 
in 1806 and in 1807 a two story hewed log house was 
built in what is now Jockey Hollow on Joseph S. Shaw's 
farm, two miles south of West Rushville. This society 
worshiped here until 1830. William Larimer and Wil- 
liam Trimble were elders, when a brick church was 
built in West Rushville. The church (the old log) 
was abandoned and a part of the society went to West 
Rushville. Of this society David Y. Davis was an 
elder, a part to Bethel and a few to the United Pres- 
byterians. The logs of the old church were used to 
build a shop in the village. Tiie Bethel church build- 
ing was erected in 1828. Amos Davis, a public spir- 
ited man, furnished the lumber and was a liberal con- 
tributor. The subscriptions were mostly in produce. 
One man subscribed so much wheat to be delivered at 
Leib's mill. Jacob Moyer, father of John and Thomas 
of Pleasant, and David Miller were the contractors. 
Moyer died here ; Miller in Iowa. Jacob Moyer, John 
Larimer and Amos Davis were the first elders. Rev. 
John Wright preached for them once each month. 
Rev. Francis Bartlett became the regular pastor in 1832. 
Many of the members were Scotch-Irish, they were 
strict with their children and almost invariably raised 
good families. 

As previously stated Wm. Rowles married Maria 
Stuart. She was the daughter of pioneer parents, 
William Stuart and Maria Henderson, known as 
Scotcli- Irish. Stuart's mother was a Thompson. They 
were both born in Ireland. The father came to the 



246 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

United States in 1796 when twenty years of age. The 
mother came in 1797. Their parents settled in Penn- 
sylvania. 

Here they became acquainted and were married 
February 18, 1801. A few years after their marriage 
they came to this county and settled near what is now 
Bremen. In a few years they were owners of a halt 
section of land, a part of which is now within the cor- 
poration of Bremen. They built a comfortable home 
on the bluff just north of the present village where they 
spent a peaceful, honorable and useful life, rearing a 
family of children. One of their best known sons, 
Thompson Stuart, highly esteemed and useful man, 
was born March 20, 1816. He married Rebecca C. 
Holliday, daughter of Zebulon Holliday, another 
sturdy and vigorous man of Rushcreek township. 
The wedding occurred April 20, 1845. He purchased 
a part of the old Stuart homestead and lived the life of 
a farmer to the end of his days in sight of Bremen. 
They reared a family of seven children. 

Mrs. Charles P'errin of Columbus, Mrs. W. B. 
Henry of Lancaster, Mrs. N. W. Good of Logan, W. 
J. Stuart of Springfield, Mrs. W. C. McCandish, Zebu- 
lon and Wesley of Bremen. 

Thompson Stuart was an honored member of the 
Methodist Episcopal church. He died Dec. 15. 1898, 
aged eighty-two years. 

His father-in-law Zebulon Holliday was a staunch 
Methodist and was devoted to his church. The writer 
has known him to attend a quarterly meeting twelve 
miles from his home. Viity years have come and gone 
since that occasion. 

The brothers of Thompson Stuart were Charles, 
William and James, Charles Stuart of Lancaster, who 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 247 

married a daughter of Christian Rudolph, is a son of 
James Stuart. 

Alexander T. Stuart the great merchant of New 
York is claimed as a cousin of William Stuart the pio- 
neer. Both were born in the same neighborhood m 
North Ireland. 

We cannot close without referring to the early 
schools of Rushcreek. The first was taught by Chris- 
topher Welty in George Beery's kitchen. The second 
by Joseph Osborn in the kitchen of Joseph Leib, Sr. 
The late David Y. Davis attended the last named. 

THE WILSON FAMILY OF RICHLAND 

In the spring of i8oo, William Wilson, of Bedford 
county, Pennsylvania, in company with his three sons, 
James, William and Michael, started for the Ohio 
country — with a pack horse to carry their car.)p equip- 
age. They arrived at Rushcreek on the i6th day of 
May, and camped near the great spring now owned 
by Mrs. William Friend. They spent the summer 
here, and made some progress in clearing land, but 
were too late to raise a crop of corn. In the fall Wil- 
liam Wilson left his boys in camp and returned to 
Pennsylvania for the remainder of his famih . PTe soM 
his property and started for Ohio, arriving at his camp 
on Rushcreek on the 27th of November. 

At Zanesville they crossed the river on a ferry boat 
with difficulty, as it was covered with ice. They spent 
the night on the west bank with a brother of Col. 
Ebenezer Zane. After leaving Zanesville they fell in 
company with George Sanderson, whose horse, on the 
way, came near dying with the colic. He was relieved 
by a liberal use of bear's oil. Whether applied extern- 
ally or given internally we cannot state. Sanderson 



248 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

was then the mail carrier. Nearly the entire route 
from Zanesville was through the forest over Zane's 
trace. 

They found two cabins at the crossing- of Rush- 
creek near Whitmore's orBinckley's in Perry County. 
A Mr. Atkinson and Peter Zarley were living there. 

They reached the camp of the boys at sunset — 
when the family was united, thirteen in all, without 
house or home. But strong hands soon put up a cabin. 

Their nearest neighbor was S. Chaney, who lived 
near where West Rushville now stands on what is now 
the Barr farm. He kept a log cabin tavern, undoubt- 
edly the first in the county. Other neighbors lived 
on the section north of their location, viz. : Fredrick 
Heck, Ben. Johnson and a man named Smith. 

William Brown, a fine scholar, the Loofberrys, S. 
Hammel and J. Wilson lived in the neighborhood. 
Moses Plumme in 1800, built a small tub mill, as it was 
called, on Rushcreek where the high bridge now stands. 
In two or three years this mill was carried off by a flood 
and Plummer moved to Muskingum county, Ohio. 
There is some question as to who built the first water 
mill in Fairfield County. Plummer, Loveland and. 
Smith, or the Carpenters — all three were built in 1800. 
So tradition and history says. 

Tn 1801 William Turner came to the settlement and 
purchased the section where Rushville now stands. S. 
Hammel and James Wilson purchased 30 acres of Wil- 
liam Turner and l)uilt a small mill and a whiskey dis- 
tillery, just below the site of the Plummer mill. 

In tlie fall of 1801, other emigrants came in. 
Among them Isaac Thomas and William Ijams, and 
settled on the land since owned by Mr. Spoon 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 249 

About 1803 John Murphy settled on what has since 
been known as the Lamb section. His son William, 
soon after their coming, was killed by the falling of a 
log while raising the timbers of a school house. This 
is the first school house in Fairfield County of which 
we have any account. 

About this same time Edward Teal, Christly Smith, 
Robert Chafiin and John Shepler came into the neigh- 
borhood, to the north. Teal purchased 1200 acres of 
good land, now the Ashbrook neighborhood. He was 
the father-in-law of Rev. James Quinn, the first Meth- 
odist to preach in Fairfield County. John Manly and 
Judge David Swayze came about the year 1803, and 
settled in the Elm flat. Emanuel Rufifner, father of 
the late Col. Jos. Ruffner, settled on a part of the Wil- 
son section in this same year, or near that time. David 
Pence came about the same time. Daniel Stevenson, 
with a large family, settled in or about 1803 on the sec- 
tion north of Wilson. Edward Murphy came to the 
neighborhood about this time and courted and married 
Sarah Murphy, daughter of John Murphy. Edward 
settled on the section south of Wilson and Rufifner. 
He kept tavern — was a farmer, and he also purchased 
the mill and distillery of Hammel and Wilson and 
operated them for a while. He was a good citizen, 
and he and his wife were hospitable and amiable peo- 
pl<!. They reared eighteen orphan children, some of 
them black. William Wiseman was a settler of this 
period. He lived near West Rushville. He was the 
son-in-law of William Ijams ; was an old soldier of 
Gen. St. Clair's army. Peter Rufifner, another early 
settler of this period, lived near Edward Murphy on 
the old State road. He was a farmer and distiller, 
but died young. He left three or four sons, Benjamin 



250 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

S., Abraham, Martin and Michael. Martin was killed 
by the Indians in what is now Ashland County, Ohio. 
A full account of this tragedy may be found in Howe's 
History of Ohio. Michael was a merchant in Rush- 
ville, Pleasantville and Baltimore, and lately a doctor 
in Greenup, Illinois. Henry Huddle came about 1803 
or 1805. He married a daughter of John Murphy. 
He was the first man to improve the Foresman mill 
site on Rushcreek. He built at an early day a grist 
mill and a distillery. In a few years he sold out to 
Solomon Linville, and in time Linville sold to George 
Foresman ; the section now belongs to his grandson 
of Circleville. There is not a vestige of the old mill 
left, and the exact spot cannot, with certainty, be 
pointed out. William Wilson was a prominent man 
in his township, and very much esteemed. He was 
the first justice of the peace elected in Richland town- 
ship. Thomas and Isaac I jams were early justices of 
the peace, and Thomas Ijams represented Fairfield 
county in the legislature. 

Wilson reared a large family of children. Thomas 
Wilson lived an old bachelor on the old home to a good 
old age. He was a gentleman of the old school, kind 
and generous, and lived a quiet, happy life. 

David lived many years on a part of the old home 
section, but before the civil war moved to Tipton, Mis- 
souri. David was a prominent man and would have 
attracted attention anywhere. He was a man of fine 
presence and a good conversationalist. He was enter- 
taining and agreeable. Isaac Wilson was all his life 
a farmer of Fairfield County. At the time of his death 
he owned the best farm in Greenfield. Isaac was an 
active, powerful man, a leader in early times, and the 
man around whom evervbodv rallied when thev wanted 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 251 

a brave and invincible leader. He was the father of 
the late J. W. Wilson, of Greenfield. Michael Wilson 
lived for some time in Vinton county, and was living 
as late as 1852. Benjamin died in New Orleans. 

Robert Paden, an old citizen of this county, near 
Baltimore, married a daughter of William Wilson. 

James Wilson and William Wilson spent most of 
their lives on a farm near Uniontown, Ohio. Joseph, 
one of the eight sons, lived on a farm near Rushville. 

Mary, daughter of William Wilson, married a hat- 
ter of Zanesville named Herron. Their daughter, 
Mary, was for years a teacher in our Lancaster 
schools. Another daughter made her home with Thos. 
Wilson, and became the wife of Alfred Melick. 

The third daughter married Chas. Nourse, father 
of the late Dr. Nourse. 

Catherine Wilson married Gen. John Williamson, 
and after his death she became the wife of Col. Wm. 
Sumner. She was for many years a leading lady of 
Lancaster. The father of Gen. Tom Ritchie married 
a daughter of William Wilson. The General was a 
farmer and a popular man. He represented the Perry 
district in Congress and sent Phil. Sheridan to West 
Point. Mrs. Mary Work, of this city, is a daughter 
of David Wilson, and Mrs. W. M. Leiby is a great- 
granddaughter of the old pioneer, William Wilson. 
Mrs. Ada Wiseman is a great-granddaughter. 

Isaac Ijams was the father of Isaac, John and Wil- 
liam. William Ijams was the father of Richard and 
Howard. Thomas Ijams was the father of John, 
Joseph and Frederick. Eight men who were for many 
years prominent in business, in and about West Rush- 
ville. Joseph was especially distinguished as a mer- 
chant and dealer in tobacco. His splendid six-horse 



262 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

teams used in his business are still the talk of the old 
people. He failed in business in 1841, and moved to 
Iowa. One of his sons became a prominent man in 
the West. 

The first Methodist church built in Fairfield County 
was Richland chapel. It was a hewed log structure 
as plain as plain could be. It stood near the old grave- 
yard, and in sight of the home of Daniel Stevenson, 
not far from Wilson's. Those in the neighborhood 
who were Methodists or patronized that church prior 
to 1805, were Daniel Stevenson and wife, Isaac and 
Thomas Ijams, John J. Jackson, John Sunderland, 
Edward Teal, Samuel Hammil, David Swayze, Wil- 
liam Wilson, Jacob and Philip Sain, William Turner, 
John Murphey, William Harper, John Manly, Thomas 
and John Bond and Isaac Wiles and their families. 

Thomas and David Wilson were staunch Metho- 
dists. Jesse Stoneman, James Quinn and Asa Shinn 
were the first men to preach to these people. Bishop 
Asbury preached to them in 1803, and again at a great 
camp-meeting in 1807, when over 1000 people were 
in attendance. Bishop McKendry preached there, 
James Axly and Peter Cartright, James B. Findlay 
and Bishop Roberts. 

The writer gleaned most of the facts in this sketch 
from a manuscript left by the late Thomas Wilson, 
an authority that will not for a moment be questioned 
by those who knew him. 

THE MURPHEY FAMILY 

The Murphey family was quite a large and promi- 
nent one in pioneer times in this county. Edward 
Murphey examined the country in 1798 and '99 and 
returned to the East. In the year 1800 his father, 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 25S 

William Murphey, and three sons, William, Benjamin 
and Edward, settled near where Millersport now 
stands. Rev. John Murphey, a local Methodist 
preacher, and a brother of William, came in the same 
year and purchased a section of land about one and 
one-half miles west of Rushcreek. He built a cabin 
near the spot where a large brick home was after- 
wards built by his son-in-law, Edward Murphey, 
which brick house is still standing. It was in this 
cabin where Bishop Asbury spent his first night in 
Fairfield County and where he preached in 1803. 
Benjamin Murphey died early and we have no record 
of him, except that he paid tax in 1806 and moved to 
Licking County. 

William Murphey, son of the pioneer, became a 
very prominent and well known man in Walnut town- 
ship. In his early years he was a hunter and Indian 
trader and carried his fur on pack horses to Winches- 
ter, Va., and with the proceeds purchased a section of 
land, on which he in a few years built a brick house. 
He was born in Virginia in 1774 and died in the year 
1854. He was a famous fox hunter and up to within 
a few years of his death kept a large pack of hounds. 
He could ride a horse to perfection and clear the best 
fences. 

His first wife was Hester Whittaker, either a sister 
or a daughter of Eli Whittaker, one of the early pio- 
neers of Walnut. Whittaker's wife was a sister of 
Thomas Cherry. The mother of the late Gen. Jas. 
M. Comly, editor of the Ohio State Journal, was a 
Whittaker. They lived near New Lexington. 
Thomas, John and Dakin Whittaker were sons of 
Eli. Mrs. Elijah Kemper, Mrs. John S. Manley, Mrs. 
Geo. B. Wiseman, Mrs. Geo. Haver and Mrs. Asa 



254 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

Murphey were his daughters., all well known people 
of the past. Murphey's second wife was a daughter 
of Joseph Holmes, a grand old pioneer of Walnut 
township. 

The family of William Murphey consisted of one 
son and five daughters. James Wilson Pearse, who 
when a boy, was a clerk along with John D. Martin 
in N. R. Usher's store at Monticello, in 1833 married 
Eliza Murphey. They lived upon a farm near Mil- 
lersport. Their children were William, living in 
Newark, and Mrs. Matlack, of Lancaster. James 
Ball, for many years a popular justice of the peace, 
married Belinda. Ball was a fine looking gentleman 
and much esteemed. Their son, James Ball, lives in 
Fostoria, Ohio, Mrs. R. Morrison in Bowling Green, 
Ohio, and two daughters, nice maiden ladies, in New- 
ark, Ohio. Hester married a Mr. White, of Penn- 
sylvania. She is a well preserved and handsome 
elderly lady, and lives with her children in Wester- 
ville, Ohio. Dr. Van Metre, of Circlevile, married 
Nancy, the youngest daughter. Rachel Murphey 
married John Pugh. They were the parents of the 
late Byron M. Pugh. 

William, the son, was born in 1818 and received 
a good education, besides inheriting 350 acres of land. 
December 25, 1849. ^'^^ ^^as married to Mary Jane 
Cherry, daughter of Thomas Cherry, of Walnut. She 
was born August 22, 1830. They were the parents of 
eight children, one of whom died young. 

Edward Murphey, brother of William (the old 
hunter ) married his cousin, Sarah, daughter of John 
Murphey, and a sister of Elizabeth Rowles. They 
were married in 1801 by William Trimble, a justice 
of the peace. Edward built a cabin on his father-in- 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 255 

law's farm and in late years a large brick house, which 
is still standing. In his log house he kept a frontier 
tavern for a number of years. Mrs. Murphey was a 
famous woman in her time. She is credited with 
rearing 32 orphan children, in addition to her own 
family of five. Color made no difference to her. She 
raised Joseph Blanchard, well known in Lancaster, 
and Isabelle, the wife of old Perry Cooper. Edward 
Murphey died in the fifties. His wife outlived him 
several years and became the second wife of Asa Mur- 
phey, who at the time lived near Carroll. 

Theodore, the son of Edward and Sarah Murphey, 
married Arabella Rowles in 1840, daughter of Jesse 
and Elizabeth Rowles. They spent their lives upon 
the old Murphey farm in the peaceful pursuit of agri- 
culture and the rearing of a family. Arabella Mur- 
phey died in 1848 and Theodore married a second 
wife. 

The sons of Theodore Murphey were Edward N. 
Murphey, now a guard in the Ohio Penitentiary, 
Henry, the present postmaster of West Rushville, 
Pierson E. Murphey', a grain and produce dealer of 
West Rushville, F. A. Murphey, also a resident of 
West Rushville. The Murphey family has always 
been a highly respectable one and allied by marriage 
to many of the best families of the county. 

CHILDREN OF JOHN MURPHEY. 

Elizabeth Murphey, wife of Jesse Rowles and 
mother of Mrs. Theodore Murphey was born June 
2, 1777. She was married March 27, 1798. She 
died in Bremen, Ohio, November 11, 1843. 

Another daughter of Rev. John and Esther Mur- 
phey married Edward Teal, Jr., and they moved to Ox- 



256 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

ford, Butler County, Ohio. He was a son of a grand 
old pioneer and the father of a large family. Althea 
Murphey married a Mr. Roland and moved to Ash- 
land County, Ohio. Achsa Murphey married a Mr. 
Bailey and moved to eastern Ohio. 

Nelly Murphey married Henry Huddle and they 
moved to Augusta County, Virginia. John and his 
wife, Edward and his wife, Theodore and his wife 
are buried in or near West Rushville. When on their 
way to their new home in the wilderness, Mrs. Mur- 
phey learned of the death of her mother, Mrs. Peddi- 
cord, in Pennsylvania. This news almost broke her 
heart, already full of sorrow. She could not leave 
her family and return, and like other brave pioneers, 
under circumstances of distress and sorrow, she turned 
her face to the west and bid home and mother adieu 
forever. 

They followed Zane's trace through an unbroken 
forest to Rushcreek. Here in a lonely cabin with her 
husband and children she spent what was left of life. 
The frequent visits of Bishop Asbury and other pio- 
neer Methodist preachers, who preached in their cabin 
and enjoyed their hospitality, was about all there was 
to cheer them in their isolated home — no roads then, 
no churches, no schools, no newspapers, and but few 
books. All they learned of what was going on in the 
world was from an occasional letter from the East, on 
which the postage was twenty-five cents, or from pass- 
ing travelers or itinerant preachers. 

We omitted in its proper place the name of Basil 
Murphey, son of William. His family moved to Del- 
aware, Ohio. One of his daughters, Miss Linda, an 
elderly maiden ladv, resides there. 



Of Fairneld County, Ohio. 267 

MURPHEY FAMILY SUPPLEMENT. 

The second wife of Theodore Murphey was Mar- 
garet Alford. Their daughter married Alexander 
Huston and they live on a farm near the old home- 
stead. As long as sixty years ago three sisters lived 
here with their mother, named Murphey. They lived 
for a while in the old Peck dwelling, opposite Hotel 
Martin. We can not learn the name of the father 
but he was a relative of John and Edward Murphey. 

In 1842 Lydia married Joel Radebaugh, then in 
the clerk's office, but later Probate Judge of Fairfield 
County. The judge died a year or two since in Ta- 
coma, Washington, leaving a widow and one son, 
Randolph Foster Radebaugh. named for Bishop 
Foster. 

Rachel married William Winthrop Sifford, whom 
John Sherman, in his autobiography, named as one of 
his school-mates. They moved to Indianapolis and 
Sifford died there. 

Elizabeth was a milliner and at one time had a 
fine store in the Collins' block. She married a Mr. 
Key, a gentleman from Wheeling, Va., about 1859. 
They in a year or two moved to Wheeling. Key was 
one of the famous family of that name, immortalized 
by the " Star Spangled Banner." He is said to have 
inherited a fortune after going to Wheeling. Their 
son went to Texas and became a cowboy. He mar- 
ried the handsome daughter of an Indian chief. His 
wife died young and left three children. These he 
took to Wheeling and placed them under the care of 
his mother. The writer met him on his way return- 
ing to Texas, and had this story from his own lips. 
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258 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

THE HOLMES FAMILY 
William M. Holmes, the ancestor of the Holmes 
family, came from England to Baltimore, Maryland, 
in or about the year 1700. His wife, Honore Wells, 
was born December 10, 1724. They were married 
when she was in her i6th year. Their children were, 
Lenorah, born 1742; William, born 1746; James, the 
subject of this sketch, was born February 13, 1748; 
Sarah, 1750. She married Colonel Alex. McLain, of 
Uniontown, Penn. ; Elizabeth was born February 12, 
1753. She married George Wells, and they settled in 
Union township, Licking County, Ohio. Thomas, 
born 1755, settled in Licking County; Alexander, 
born 1757, was killed in the revolutionary war. 

William M. Holmes died March 10, 1758. His 
widow married Richard Brown, November 17, 1759. 
Brown was colonel under General Washington. He 
lived in Pennsylvania at that time. They moved as 
early as 1796 to Holliday's Cove, on the Ohio river, 
near the present town of Wellsburg, Va. Colonel 
Brown died February 8, 181 1, aged 71 years. His 
wife died March 28, 1816, aged 90 years. Their 
daughter Rachel married General James Wells who 
settled on the Hooker farm in 1801, and whom we 
will sketch in another paper. General Wells was a 
brother of the George Wells mentioned — the hus- 
band of Elizabeth Holmes. 

The Holmes family was prominent in the history 
of this county. The family of the founder. James 
Holmes, Sr., consisted of thirteen sons and one daugh- 
ter. They were all married and all reared families 
with one exeception. 

Thirteen sons, remarkable for longevity, good 
character and business ability. The oldest sons were 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 259 

very well educated and filled important positions in 
life. James Holmes, Sr., was a soldier of the Revo- 
lution, and after the war ended he settled in Wash- 
ington County, Pa., where he married Ann Whittaker, 
a sister of Eli Whittaker. He had quite a family of boys 
before emigrating to the west and they received a good 
education for the time in which they lived. He 
belonged to the hardy people known as the Scotch 
Irish. He came with his family to Fairfield County in 
1802. He purchased the land which lay between the 
William Murphey farm and what is now Millersport. 
On this farm he built the first brick house in that part 
of the county. But on this farm in an ordinary log 
house he reared his large family. They began to 
leave soon and settled upon tracts of their own. The 
Murpheys, Whittakers, Crawfords, Havers and 
Cherrys formed a fine pioneer neighborhood. They 
intermarried and raised large families, and for one 
hundred years their influence has been one for good. 
James Holmes lived to be 79 years of Sge and his wife 
69 years. They were buried near the home of Alex- 
ander and James, Jr., at the Wells graveyard or 
George's Chapel, one-half mile north of Luray, in 
Licking County. James Holmes was slightly lame, 
caused by a wound received in the Revolutionary war. 
He was a man of sterling qualities, and very prominent 
in his neighborhood. He built the first brick house 
in Walnut township. Thomas Holmes, a brother of 
James, settled in Union township, Licking County, 
Ohio. He died, aged 78 years, and was buried at 
George's Chapel, near Luray, Ohio. 

Alexander Holmes was the eldest son of James. 
He was well educated in Pennsylvania. He married 
a daughter of the first William Murphey and a sister 



260 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

of Mrs. John Van Buskirk, of Licking County. He 
settled upon the farm where he lived and died, in 
Union township, in 1802. He was a fine surveyor 
and was for some time employed as a land surveyor 
for the government. Subsequently he was elected 
county surveyor of Licking County. He surprised and 
disgusted his father by early predicting that the Ohio 
Canal would .some day be built and would pass through 
his farm. A prediction that came true. He reared 
a family and lived to an advanced age. His body is 
said to have been buried on his farm. 

Alexander Holmes was much more than an ordi- 
nary man. .About the year 1808 he was appointed 
an Associate Judge of Licking County and served one 
term. 

In 1825 Governor DeWitt Clinton, of New York, 
commenced the Ohio Canal by throwing a shovel full 
of earth at the Licking Summit. 

Licking and Fairfield Counties united in celebrating 
this event. Governor Clinton was received by a com- 
mittee from each county. Judge Holmes and Judge 
Wilson for Licking and Judge Scofield and CoUmel 
John Xoble for Fairfield. Thomas Ewing delivered 
the oration and Gottlieb Steinman furnished the din- 
ner. Judge Holmes at this time was one of the most 
distinguished men of Licking County. In his early 
life, in the woods, his father and mother and son Eli 
paid him a visit. On the way, in the forest, they 
noticed a smoke and soon saw the fire. Mrs. Holmes 
filled her pipe and gave it to Eli to light for her. 
Going to the fire he found a family living and keeping 
house in a hollow sycamore tree — where they had 
lived for one vear. 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 261 

Thomas Holmes, son of James, was born in Penn- 
sylvania, and came with his father to Ohio. He mar- 
ried Rachel Wells, his cousin. She was a daughter 
of George Wells, who married Elizabeth Holmes, a 
sister of James Holmes. George Wells lived in Union 
township, Licking County, and both he and his wife 
were buried at George's Chapel. Thomas Holmes pur- 
chased a section of land north of what is now Carroll. 
He was there as early as 1806, and a tax payer. He 
lived an honorable and useful life and left a good 
name as the heritage of his children. He died Octo- 
ber 14, 1847, aged 68 years. Rachel, his wife, died 
January 8, 1845, aged 59. They were both buried at 
the Carroll cemetery. They were the parents of five 
sons. Thomas, James. George. Alexander and Richard. 
All dead but the last one named. 

Wesley Holmes, a Carroll merchant, is the only son 
of George Holmes. He married Catharine Aldred, a 
sister of Dr. A. T. Aldred, late of Carroll. 

Elizabeth, daughter of George, is the wife of Cap- 
tain O. B. Brandt, a farmer near Carroll. They live 
on the old home place. Mary, daughter of George, 
married Dr. Hummel, of Baltimore. James Brandt, 
an energetic young man, is a grandson. 

James, son of James, and grandson of Thomas, is 
a farmer on the old Whittaker place, and also runs 
the creamery. He was brought up by James Picker- 
ing and wife. Henry Holmes, brother of James, is 
the present mayor of Carroll. The daughters of 
James, son of Thomas, arc Mrs. G. W. Luckey, Mrs. 
George Groves, of Dayton, Miss Florence of Indiana, 
Ella, wife of Postmaster Kraner, of Pickcrington : 
Maria, wife of Samuel Ludwig Reeves, superintendent 
of workhouse, at Columbus, Ohio. Richard, son of 



262 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

Thomas, married Miss Miller. They were not blessed 
with children. Richard is the only grandson of the 
pioneer, James Holmes, living" so far as we can learn. 
The daughters of Thomas Holmes, son of James, the 
pioneer, were Mrs. Nancy Bayless, of Fort Wayne, 
Ind. ; Elizabeth, wife of Henry Taylor. She died a 
short time ago. They had lived a married life of 
sixty-five years. Henry Taylor is a grand old man. 
Rachel married for her first husband Dakin Whit- 
taker. Her second husband was James Pickering, 
grandfather of the Lancaster postmaster. Harriet 
married George Tong, a grandson of W. H. Tong, 
the man who entertained Bishop x^sbury the first time 
that he preached in Lancaster, in 1807. 

If correctly informed, this brother of George went 
to California. Alexander, a brother, became blind 
and spent his last years with Mrs. Taylor. 

TONG 

George Tong married second time to Nancy Har- 
rison, widow, March 17, 1818. George Tong died 
October iO, 1825. Nancy (wife), April 10, 1826. 

Tin: IK cinLnKi-:N. 

(icorge Tong, born August 14, 1819, married Har- 
riet Holmes, September 7, 1843. Margaret Tong, 
born September 17. 1821, married Amos Drimell, 1838; 
Llisha Smith, 1844. Nancy Tong, born August 30, 
1823, died in infancy. 

The Tongs were prominent in Carroll for many 
years. They were good citizens and fine looking men. 
Thomas Holmes, Sr., owned a fine section of land just 
north of Carroll, running to Walnut creek. 

Sarah married John W. Smith. They have both 
been dead some vears. Henrv T. Smith, of Lancaster, 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 263 

is their son, and Thomas, another son, lives in Indiana. 
Marietta, the daughter, is the wife of Dr. Stewart of 
Pickerington. One of the chief characteristics of the 
Holmes family is good looks, and Mrs. Stewart is not 
deficient in this respect. 

William Holmes, son of James, was born in Penn- 
sylvania and received some schooling there. He lived 
as early as i8o.^ on a fine farm in Licking County and 
late in life moved to Janesville, Wisconsin, where he 
died. He was an associate judge of Licking County 
from 1820 to 1830. 

Richard Holmes, son of James, married a Cherry 
and moved to Schoolcraft, Michigan, where they lived 
and died upon their farm. 

James Holmes, Jr., was born in May, 1785, in 
Washington county, Pa. He came with his father to 
Fairfield County in 1802. His wife was Elizabeth 
Wells, and they were married in 1806, and settled upon 
a farm in Union township. Licking County, Ohio. His 
wife was a sister of Mrs. Thomas Holmes, and had 
several other relatives in this township. George, Rich- 
ard. Joseph, William and Bezeleel W^ells. 

A Methodist church was built in that neighborhood 
in 1812 and called "Wells' Meeting House." In late 
years a brick church was built and called "George's 
Chapel. 

Here also is the Wells, Hand, Ford and Holmes 
graveyard. 

Rev. George Callahan, a farmer and Methodist 
preacher lived in this neighborhood many years. His 
wife was a Wells. 

Callahan was born in 1766, in Pennsylvania, and 
died in Jersey township. Licking County, in 1839, aged 
73 years. 



264 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

He was a circuit rider in western Pennsylvania 
and in the year 1787 crossed the Ohio and preached 
at Carpenter's fort, while a company of soldiers stood 
guard to protect the white people from the Indians. 
Philip Ford, the grandfather of James and Charles 
Pickering-, married a daughter of this Rev. George 
Callahan. He was the first M. E. preacher in Ohio. 
James Holmes, Jr., owned and improved four or five 
different farms in his life time, selling the last one 
in 1833, and moving to Fairfield County. In 1835 he 
moved to Hebron and became a merchant, in which he 
failed. He was wealthy and did not lose all. 

When he died his body was embalmed and placed 
in a vault at George's Chapel. His wife gave direc- 
tion to bury her body in the grave, which was done. 

This old settlement and the graveyard is an inter- 
esting spot. James Holmes was county surveyor for 
several years. 

Samuel Holmes moved at an early day to Marion, 
Ohio, where he reared and educated a small family. 
He was for several years the county surveyor, an 
important office in a newly settled county. He has 
been dead at least sixty years. Several of his chil- 
dren died young in years. His son Samuel was deputy 
postmaster of Marion from 1849 to 1853 under Samuel 
A. Griswold, now a resident of this city. He moved 
from Marion to Sycamore, in Wyandot County, where 
he died. 

A (laughter of Samuel Holmes married James S. 
Reed, an old merchant of Marion and at the time of 
his death the leading banker and one of the wealthy 
men of Marion. He was an accomplished business 
man, well informed, and had few, if any, equals in the 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 



265 



city of Marion. His wife outlived him but is now 
dead. Samuel's sons, Richard and Charles, are both 
dead. George, a son of James Holmes, Jr., married 
Sarah Gill, a sister of John Gill. 

A daughter married James Harvey, who began his 
business career selling tobacco and whiskey to the 
laborers on the national road. When Holmes failed 
as a merchant, Harvey bought the stock. His wife 
died early, and he married Miss Hand, a wealthy 
woman. He then moved to Newark and was rated 
the richest man in Licking County. 

Reason Holmes, son of James, moved to the state 
of Michigan and spent his life upon a farm. Roland 
Holmes, son of James, went to Missouri at an early 
day, married -there, and died childless Basil Holmes 
was a physician and married a Miss Cochran. He 
died near Kirkersville, Ohio, at Eli's house. Lemuel 
Holmes, son of James, moved to Wisconsin, was a 
farmer and reared a family. Eli Holmes settled upon 
a farm first in Walnut lown>liiii and in the early days 
ran a distillery on section four. In late years he 
purchased a farm near Kirkersville and spent his old 
age there. He was a fine looking and much respected 
gentleman, and an enthusiastic member of the Meth- 
odist Episcopal Church. 

Eli Holmes married a daughter (Sallie) of Rich- 
ard ?>rown. She was a granddaughter of Edward 
Brown, brother of Colonel Richard Brown, father of 
Rachel Wells or Mrs. General James Wells. Mrs. 
Brown was a Whittaker, a sister of old Dakin and 
Eli Whittaker. When quite old Holmes moved to 
Putnam, Ohio (Zanesville), where he died. 

Archibald Houston married his daughter, Amanda. 
His son, James H. Holmes, is a pension clerk in 



266 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

Washington, D. C. His daughter, Catharine, married 
Josiah Whittaker. His son, Eli, lives in Milford, 
Illinois. Basil, in Terra Haute, Indiana. His daugh- 
ter, Nancy, married Enos Wilkins, of Granville, Ohio. 

Joshua Holmes, son of James, moved to Indiana 
and died there. He was the father of the late Mrs. 
James Ewing, of Pleasant township. Mrs. Ewing's 
daughters were handsome, like their mother, and were 
well educated. The eldest married a schoolmate 
named Zollars, of Licking County, Ohio. He was a 
lawyer and they moved to Fort Wayne, Ind. He was 
for one term a Judge of the Supreme Court of Indiana. 
Mrs. Bennett, the other daughter, lives in Chicago, 111. 
Mrs. and Judge Zollars are prominent people of Fort 
Wayne, and delightful people to meet. 

Joseph Flolmes, son of James, lived and died in 
Walnut township, near Buckeye Lake; the farm is 
now owned by John Zollinger. He married a sister of 
Peter, Ceorge and Jerriah Haver and of Mrs. D. Pope, 
Mrs. Thomas Cherry, Mrs. John Meason and Mrs. 
John Brandon. A bevy of sisters noted for good 
taste and fine manners. They were prominent in a 
fine circle of nice people. Of the Methodist Church 
he was an honored and consistent member. He lived 
to a good old age. respected and honored by all who 
knew him. He was a fine talker and it was a great 
pleasure to hear him at his best. He was a good look- 
ing man and his daughters, Mrs. Aldred and Mrs. 
Whittaker, were handsome women. 

Peter Holmes was the oldest son of Joseph. 
When about thirty years of age he started from Cin- 
cinnati to New Orleans and was never heard of after- 
wards. 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 267 

William Holmes, son of Joseph, moved to near 
Fort Wayne, Ind. He became a stock dealer and soon 
moved to Pittsburg and engaged in the stock commis- 
sion business at East Liberty. He died a few years 
since. Joshua, George and Reason were (farmers. 
George lived a short time in Lancaster. George mar- 
ried a Reese, and Reason married a Thompson, and 
they spent their lives upon the old home farm. Upon 
the deatli of Reason, in due time, his widow married 
Peter Cool. Rebecca was the second wife of William 
Murphey, Sr. Hester died young. Elizabeth mar- 
ried David Cherry. He died in a few years and his 
widow married John Aldred, who recently died at 
Pataskala, Ohio. Xancy married John Whittaker and 
they moved to New Lexington, Ohio, where they were 
prominent and highly esteemed. 

Nancy Holmes, daughter of James Holmes, and 
the onlv daughter, married Charles Brown and they 
moved to Uniontown, Penn., where tliey spent their 
lives. 

Charles Brown and Nancy Holmes were married 
September c), 1819. and moved immediately to Fayette 
Countv, Pa. Mr. P.rown died on their farm in Fayette 
Septemlx-r 14, 1835. 

Colonel Alexander McLean, who married Sarah 
Holmes, was a verv able and distinguished citizen of 
Pennsylvania. He was a member of the legislature 
and filled many important public offices. He was a 
civil engineer of distinction and represented Pennsyl- 
vania in the survey of Mason and Dixon's line, which 
was completed in 1783. He died in Uniontown, Fay- 
ette county. Pa., December 7, 1834. 

Colonel i\lex. McLean had six brothers and all 
were survevors. Three of the oldest assisted in ihe 



268 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

Mason and Dixon survey prior to 1766. On account 
of opposition on the part of the Indians of the "Six 
Nations" and of the Delawares and Shoshones. Mason 
and Dixon's Hne was not completed until the year 
1783. The finishing work was done by Colonel 
McLean and his brother John. Colonel McLean was 
born in York Co., Pa., in 1746, and located in what is 
now Somerset County, Pa., as a surveyor in 1765. 
He married Sarah Holmes at or near Storrstown, Pa., 
in 1775. 

This sketch is not so complete as we could wish, 
but for want of information it is the best we can do. 
What is known of so large and so remarkable \. family 
is worth preserving. 

THE WELLS FAMILY. 

The ancestry of Gen. James Wells and Col. Rich- 
ard Brown : 

James Wells, an Englishman, was founder of the 
family in the United States and lived in or near Bal- 
timore, Md. 

St. Paul's Parish Register of that city gives his 
wife's name as Ann, and children as James, born 27th 
January, 1716; Prudence, born March 16, 1720; Rich- 
ard, second son, born 13th March, 1722; Ann, born 
17th February, 1729; Alexander, born 12th March, 
1727 (father of Bezaleel Wells, of Steubenville) ; 
Honor, born in October, 1724 (Brown Bible gives 
this date December 10, 1724-5). 

This last named child. Honor, married, first Wm 
M. Holmes, founder of the family of that name in 
Ohio. As his widow, she married Col. Richard 
Brown, November 17, 1759. 

There were three children of this marriage : 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 269 

Rachel, born December 29, 1760, became the wife 
of Gen. Jas. Wells, in Pennsylvania, April 24, 1775. 

Richard, only son, was a surveyor, member of the 
Virginia State Legislature, etc. Married, settled and 
died in the Panhandle, where his descendants live at 
present. 

Margaret, the youngest, married Madden and 

settled in Indiana. 

The Brown ancestor, also English, married Nancy 
Stevenson, in Baltimore County, Md., and settled there. 
Their family numbered sixteen. Edward, one of 
these children, was grandfather of Mrs. Eli H. 
Holmes. Another was Col. Richard Brown. A third 
Nancy, was mother of Gen. James Wells. 

The husband, Richard (James?) Wells was a 
brother of Honor Wells-Holmes-Brown and son of 
the founder of the family of James Wells. 

Honor was both aunt and mother-in-law to Gen. 
James Wells and his brother, George, who married 
Elizabeth Holmes, sister of James Holmes. Sr.— 
children by her first husband. 

Nancy Brown, wife of Richard (or James?) Wells, 
(son of the founder) and family probably, resided in 
Frederick County, Md. 

Nancy Stevenson was no doubt related to Daniel 
Stevenson of Richland. 

1. Richard, who was likely their oldest son, mar- 
ried a Miss Holmes, then Miss Brown, moved to Ken- 
tucky, thence to Missouri, where he died. 

2. Alexander, a volunteer in the army of Gen. St. 
Clair, was killed by the kick of a horse at Ft. Wash- 
ington (Cincinnati), Ohio. 

3. George, born in 1745, was the father of Wil- 
liam Wells, the founder of Wellsville, Ohio. 



270 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

4. James, born in 1751, married Rachel, daugh- 
ter of Col. Richard Brown, in Pennsylvania, April 24, 
1775, etc. 

5. Thomas, born in 1758; farmer, settled near 
Maysville, Ky. ; paid remembered visits to his relatives 
in Ohio ; owned slaves and held those belonj^ing to 
his brother, Gen. James Wells. 

6. John, born in 1764, youngest son, was a man 
of great prominence in Somerset, Pa., where he died. 
He laid out the towns of Bedford and Somerset, that 
State, as surveyor; was justice of the peace, associate 
judge, etc. His descendants are worthy successors. 

Next to nothing is known of the six sisters of 
these men. Mary, born in 1748, married John Dodd- 
ridge. Patience, born in 1758, married a Baptist min- 
ister, named Kerr, and settled in Kentucky. 

The father of this family, Richard (or James?) 
Wells, married a second wife and had another six sons 
and six daughters — 24 children in all. 

Most, if not all, of both families came West. 

The father lived, after leaving Maryland, in Penn- 
sylvania, in the " Panhandle," in Kentucky, and died 
in Ohio in 1808, in Ross county. 

Gen. Wells settled in Somerset county, Penn., a 
year or two before the Revolution. He served in 
that war, as did his father-in-law, Col. Richard Brown, 
and his cousins, James and Alexander Holmes. 

He was once surprised by the Indians and pur- 
sued for a long distance, finally securing a horse he 
made his escape, not, however, until wounded four 
times by the bullets of the Indians. 

He was a prominent man in Somerset county and 
filled positions of honor and trust. In April, 1795, he 



Of Fairiield County, Ohio. 271 

was made an associate judge of Somerset County, 
Pennsylvania. 

From Somerset County he moved to Holiday's 
Cove, on the Ohio, where his father-in-law then lived. 
This must have been in 1798 or 1799. Here his 
daughter, Sarah, married Samuel Tallman, and they 
took up their residence in Wellsburg, Va., a town near 
the old home, and named for the Wells family. The 
exact' date of Gen. Wells's coming to Ohio can not be 
given, but it must have been in the fall of 1801. He 
built a cabin on what is now known as the Trimble or 
Hooker place, in the woods ; and when the land sales 
took place he purchased 1,280 acres in one body. He 
was a justice of the peace for Greenfield at one time, 
and gave his attention to farming. 

General Wells was a member of a very distin- 
guished family, and his own reputation was that of an 
able, upright man. His sister, Mary, married John 
Doddridge. Their son, Joseph, was a clergyman of 
the Episcopal church. Philip was a distinguished law- 
yer and had few equals in the West. He was also a 
very distinguished Congressman, and died in Wash- 
ington in 1832. The late Joseph G. Doddridge, of 
Lancaster, was a grandson of Mary Wells. 

Elizabeth Wells, a daughter of Richard Wells, mar- 
ried George Hammond. They were the parents of 
Charles Hammond, the most distinguished lawyer and 
editor in the West of the early days. Upon the death 
of Judge Sherman he took his son, Lampson, and 
reared him in his family. 

The Hammonds had a family of 16 children. One 
of the daughters was the wife of the late Judge Hood, 
of Somerset, Ohio, and the mother of W. C. Hood, 
once State Librarian of Ohio. 



27'2 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

Bezaleel Wells, the founder of Steubenville, and 
a distinguished banker and manufacturer, was a 
cousin of James Wells and George, of Licking County. 

Alexander Campbell, a very distinguished preacher 
and founder of the Campbellite Church, married a 
Wells. The descendants of Rev. Callahan (Picker- 
ings, of this town) claim that Rev. George Callahan 
married a daughter of Bezaleel Wells. He had but 
two daughters, who married — one, Katharine, 
married John McDowell, and Rebecca married Rev. 
Philander Chase. We have not been able to find the 
name Callahan in the Wells history. 

Mary Brown Wells, daughter of General Wells, 
was born August 31, 1776, at 12 o'clock M. She 
married Thomas McCall, a Scotchman. They lived 
upon a farm in Greenfield. Mrs. McCall died in 1828, 
aged 52 years. McCall died at Jones Gibbony's, in 
1853, aged 84 years. They were buried at Hookers. 
Priscilla, a daughter of this couple, married William 
McCleery, in 1829. She died May, 1844, aged 38 
years. Their daughter, Maria, married Reason A. 
DeBolt, who became judge and a member of Con- 
gress from Missouri. DeBolt was a son of a pioneer 
Baptist preacher of that name. 

Sarah McCleery married George W. Beck, of 
Hocking township, in 1854. 

Rachel Wells McCall married Jones Gibbony in 
1837. She died while this sketch was being written, 
June 7, 1899. Gibbony died in 1883. 

Emaletta married W. W. McCrea. Philemon Mc- 
Call Gibbony married Minerva L. Smith in 1875. 
John T. Gibbony married Agnes Wineburner. Rich- 
ard Reeves McCall married Juliet Wells in Jefferson 
City. Mo., in 1849, a relative of his mother. Sarah, 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 273 

daughter of James Wells, married Samuel Tallman at 
Wellsbiirg, Va., March 28, 1801, and came to Fair- 
field county in 1804, and died November 13, 1837, 
aged 53 years. 

Like the McCalls, both were buried at the Hooker 
graveyard. Benjamin F. Tallman married Nancy C. 
Tallman, of Virginia, in 1839, and died in Shelby 
County, 111., in 1877, aged 73 years. He was a son 
of Samuel Tallman. 

Richard Brown Tallman married Mary Boone 
Taylor in 1834. James Wells Tallman married Mar- 
garetta Minter, 1833 ; died in Knox County, Missouri, 
1859, aged 57 years. 

Cynthia Ann Tallman married Levi White, of 
Hughsville, Va., in 1859. This lady was a grand- 
daughter of Samuel Tallman. When a young woman 
she was pronounced the most handsome visitor to 
Fairfield County. .She was the mother of 12 children. 

Alary Tallman, daughter of Samuel and Sarah, 
married Thomas B. Head in 1827. She died in Stew- 
art, Iowa, in 1875, aged 69 years. 

Rachel Wells Tallman, daughter of Sarah and 
Samuel, married J. B. Dorsey in 1828, and died at 
Kirkersville in 1832, aged 22 years. 

Nancy Tallman married Reuben Evans, of Zanes- 
ville, Ohio, in 1830. She is the only daughter of Sam- 
uel Tallman living. 

Cynthia Ann Tallman married Thomas Roe, of 
Zanesville, Ohio, in i8-'i7. She died in 1891, aged yy 
years. They were the parents of Mary Josephine Roe, 
a woman of education and culture, and the author of 
a very good genealogy of the Wells family, to which 
the author is indebted for names and dates. 

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274 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

[Annie Sophia, her other daughter, married Dr. E. 
W. Mitchell, of Cincinnati, Ohio. He is an only son 
of Rev. James Mitchell, a M. E. minister, well known 
in this county.] 

Honor Dianah Tallman married George W. Wilson 
in 1835. She died in 1840, aged 25 years. 

Margaret Elizabeth Tallman married Thomas 
Coulson, of Rushville, in 1841. She died in 1844, 
aged 20 years. Coulson subsequently married one of 
the daughters of Joshua Clarke, and now lives in Trin- 
idad, Colorado. 

Rachel Wells married William Wilson, son of 
Nathaniel Wilson, Sr., October 14, 1802. 

She died in 1842, aged 55 years. Wilson came 
with his father to this county in 1798, from Cumber- 
land County, Penn. He died September 26, 1851. 

Their daughter, Minerva Wells Wilson, married 
Joseph Lynn. She died at the age of 36 years. Na- 
thaniel Wilson died in 1846, aged 38 years. Honora 
Calista Wilson married James McCleery in 1826. She 
died in 1890, aged 80 years. Amanda, their daughter, 
married Aaron Kistler in 1852, and died in one year. 
Lucretia McCleery married Peter Hay ; they live near 
Sedalia, Mo. 

Samuel McCleery married Mary Levering in 1869. 
William. Wells McCleery married Mary Norton, of 
Marion, Indiana, in 1877. William is a successful 
merchant in his new home. He was, in his young 
days, teacher of the North Grammar School, Lancas- 
ter, Ohio. 

Theodore McCleery moved to the West several 
years since. 

Charles W. McCleery is a rising young lawyer of 
Lancaster, a man of character and ability. He married 
Laura Acton in 1884. 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 275 

Lizzie Jennetta McCleery married Levi Hengst in 
1 88 1. He is a very fine farmer and prospering. 

Cynthia Elizabeth Wilson married Rev. Barnett 
Miller in 1841, and moved to San Antonio, Texas. 

Rachel Wilson married Owen Smith in 1839, and 
moved to Montezuma, Indiana. She died in 1873, 
aged 57 years. Their daughter, Minerva Louise, mar- 
ried Philemon McCall Gibbony in 1875. 

James Wells Wilson married Rose Ann Wolf, of 
Pickaway County, Ohio. Mr. Wilson owns the old 
Wolf farm and other good land beside, in that county. 
It is cultivated by his thrifty sons. Mr. Wilson owns 
a splendid farm in Greenfield, and one in Berne, this 
county. He is one of the sturdy, industrious old farm- 
ers, who have come down to us from a former genera- 
tion, bringing with him the good old habits of the early 
days — a plain, honest, straightforward man, who 
attends to his own business and knows very well how 
to go about it. He has prospered and is independent, 
but he is the same James W. Wilson that we knew 
long ago — a plain, unassuming old man. He is an 
intelligent man, and can tell what he knows in very 
good English. 

His sons are good farmers and good citizens. Wil- 
liam Harvey Wilson married Mary Skeeters in 1844; 
they Hved at Montezuma, Indiana. He died in 1862, 
aged 41 years. 

Maria Louise Wilson married Henry Pence in 
1846, and moved to Brady ville, Iowa. Ambrose Whit- 
lock Wilson married Elizabeth A. Leach in 1871, and 
died in Kentucky in 188 1, aged 52 years. 

James Wells, son of General Wells, was born Octo- 
ber II, 1789, "betwixt the break of day and sunrise " 
(Family Bible). He inherited a good farm. He mar- 



276 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

ried Cynthia Ann Reeves in Ross County, Ohio, in 
1815. He died May 9, 1834; his widow died in Jeff- 
erson City, Missouri, July 26, 1874, aged yy years. It 
was her daughter who married Richard Reeves Mc- 
Call. 

Nathan Wells, her brother, was the only grand- 
child of Gen. James Wells, bearing his sir name ; there 
are but three great-grand sons who represent it at 
present. 

Honora B. Wells married Samuel Reeves, June 12, 
i8t2; her second husband was David Rank, of New 
Salem, Fairfield County, married June 25, 1845. She 
died November 18, 1874, aged 82 years. 

David Rank was one of the best of men, true and 
lovely in life and character. His first wife was a sis- 
ter of James McCleery, by whom he had a large family 
of children. 

A granddaughter married Captain John Wiseman, 
46th Ohio Infantry. She was named for his second 
wife, Honora. 

He was a native of Lancaster County, Pennsylva- 
nia, and came at an early day to Fairfield. 

John, son of Gen. Wells, at the age of 35 years, 
was lost on the Mississippi river. 

Ann Brown Wells married Aaron Foster, of Ross 
County, Ohio. May 28, 1834. She died June 4, 1858, 
aged 59 years. She was buried at Lattaville, Ross 
County, Ohio. 

Margaretta Madden Wells married Benjamin 
Mackerly, March 7, 1828, and lived near Bainbridge. 
Ross County, Ohio; she died September 22, 1873, aged 
72 years. 

Thomas McCall came from Pennsylvania to Ohio. 
He served some years as a justice of the peace. His 



Of Fairiield County, Ohio. 277 

large family is now widely scattered. Three of his 
grandsons, Reeves, McCleery and Gibbony, were sol- 
diers. Samuel Tallman was the son of Benjamin Tall- 
man, who moved from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 
to Rockingham County, Virginia. 

Samuel Tallman and wife came to Fairfield on 
horseback, bringing two small children. A brother — 
William — relieved them of the burden and carried 
one of them. She rode a gray horse, which refused 
to move a step when it scented a rattlesnake, until it 
was killed. Samuel was a cabinet maker by trade. 

Thomas Head came from Bedford County, Penn- 
sylvania. He was a farmer and a contractor on the 
canal. 

J. B'. Dorsey was a millwright by trade. 

Reuben Evans came from Pennsylvania. He was 
introduced to his future wife, Nancy Tallman, by his 
uncle, Brumfield. After their marriage the young 
couple were escorted to their Zanesville home, a dis- 
tance of forty miles, by a large party on horseback. 

Thomas Roe was born in Ireland, and was brought 
to America when a child. He was a merchant and a 
farmer. He v/as introduced to his wife while both 
were on a visit to Somerset, Ohio. George W. Wilson 
belonged to the Somerset branch of that family. 

Margaret Tallman Coulson, who died at 22 years 
of age, was pronounced a very handsome woman. 



278 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 



WELLSVILLE, OHIO. 

The honor of founding- this town is claimed for 
Alexander Wells and William Wells, by their friends. 
It is doubtless true that William laid out the town; 
but both men were largely interested in it from its 
beginning. 

William Wells was a son of George Wells, who 
lived and died in Licking county, Ohio. William was 
reared by grand parents, and did not follow his father 
to the West. He was always a prominent man of 
Wellsville, and acted as magistrate under Governor 
St. Clair, a position of more importance than that of 
justice of the peace now. The magistrates met at 
stated intervals and constituted the Court of Quarter 
Sessions — now superceded by our County Common 
Pleas. His son, Alexander, was a prominent man of 
Wellsville, and the local historian. The man who, in 
an address, applied Dr. H. Scott's school house anec- 
dote to Lancaster, instead of Clark County, where it 
belonged. 

The office of Associate Judge was one of import- 
ance and honor, in the first fifty years of Ohio. The 
judges settled estates, appointed administrators and 
granted licenses, performing the duties now pertaining 
to the ofiice of Probate Judge, and were also members 
of the Common Fleas Court. 

THE WELLS BURYING GROUND. 

In the year 1810, Gen. Wells deeded a part of sec- 
tion 29 to Samuel Hooker, Sr., and in that deed dis- 
tinctly reserved one half acre for a burying ground, 
and there he and his wife were buried. It was then 
known as the Wells' graveyard, where a majority of 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 279 

his descendants, who since died in this county, were 
buried. It became, however, the burial place of all of 
the old pioneers of the neighborhood, and many of 
their descendants. It is fairly well cared for, and held 
as a sacred spot by the people of Greenfield. 

Alexander Wells a few years since delivered an 
address referring to old times. He said : 

" In 1828 there was a debating society in Lancas- 
ter, Ohio ; the meetings were held in a school house 
The subject of railroads was discussed. In a day or 
two one of the members (Dr. Harvey Scott) received 
a note signed by a dozen of the solid men of the neigh- 
borhood, to this effect : ' You are welcome to the use 
of the school house to debate all proper questions, but 
such things as railroads are impossibilities, and are 
impious, and will not be allowed.' " 

Mr. Wells is greatly in error and unwittingly slan- 
ders Lancaster. The occurrence he refers to took place 
in Clark County, Ohio, and was related by Dr. H. 
Scott in his history of Fairfield County. 

General Wells received his patent from the LInited 
States Government, for section 29, August 24, 1809, 
and for section 28, February 10, 1809. When he came 
to Greenfield in 1801, the lands were not for sale, and 
he was a squatter. The lands were sold in 1802 or 
1803. at public auction, to the highest bidder, and the 
best land between the home of the General and Lan- 
caster sold as high as four dollars per acre. Patents 
are not always evidence of the date of purchase, as 
families have been known to occupy land 60 years 
without the patent. 

After the death of General Wells, a portion of his 
lands, probably one section, became the property of 
Richard Hooker. Richard and Samuel Hooker lived 



•280 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

long and honorable lives upon this land, and the sta- 
tion, the graveyard and the farm are called Hooker. 

General James Wells had eleven children, three of 
whom died early, and it is known that his descendants 
to this time number 500 souls — six generations. 

Nathaniel Wells settled in Union township, Licking 
County, at an early day, near the point known as Heb- 
ron. He was nearly related to Gen. Wells. He was 
a farmer, and lived and died in that neighborhood. 

His sons were : John Wells, who was a " 49er," 
but remained only five years in California, when he re- 
turned to Baltimore, Ohio, where he died. He was 
the father of Mrs. Dr. J. H. Goss. Basil died in Cali- 
fornia. Jesse moved to Illinois and died there. 
Daniel lived in Newark, Ohio. Samuel lived in Lick- 
ing County ; George in Kansas City ; Franklin moved 
to Iowa ; Narcissa lived in Newark, Ohio. 

A Dr. Ferguson, of Hebron, married a Wells. One 
of his daughters married Mr. Tomlinson, of Indian- 
apolis, Indiana, who became very prominent there. 
One daughter is a preacher, another is a doctor. 

L. Calvin Sutphen, brother of Captain Sutphen, 
married Mary, a daughter of Dr. Ferguson. He died 
early and his widow married Mr. Brush, treasurer of 
Perry County, and they moved to Zanesville, Ohio. 

McCLEERY. 

James McCleery and two brothers came from Ire- 
land to America in 1740; they were, however, born in 
Scotland. They settled in Lancaster County, Penn- 
sylvania. 

James McCleery died, leaving two sons, James and 
Joseph. James came to Fairfield County in 1814, and 
died in 1826. His sons were James and William, who 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 281 

married in the Wells family, John and Joseph. The 
latter married a daughter of an early pioneer of this 
county, Johi. Shepler. Joseph reared a family of beau- 
tiful daughters; with but one exception, Mrs. Perry 
Teal, they are all dead. The daughters of James Mc- 
Cleery were : Anna, wife of John Morgan, of Green- 
field : Mrs. David Rank, of Walnut township; and 
IMaria, wife of Abraham Hedges, of Hocking. 

Joseph McCleery, son of James, came to Fairfield 
County in 1820, and died here. He left a son, Jos- 
eph, who lived many years southwest of Lancaster, 
three miles. 

Mrs. Christian Neibling, a daughter, was born 
August I, 1795, and died in Kansas, March, 1885, 
aged 89 years. 

Mrs. Balser Rutter was a daughter of Joseph Mc- 
Cleery. Both daughters have many descendants in 
Ohio and Western states. 

Samuel Wells Tallman, the fourth son of Samuel 
Tallman, is a bachelor, living in the West. 

TALLMAN SKETCH. 

Sarah Wells married Samuel Tallman at Wells- 
burg, Virginia. March 28, 1801. 

At the time she was boarding with her Doddridge 
relatives attending school, and he one of the support- 
ers of the Episcopal church there. 

They set up housekeeping in that town, and moved 
thence to Fairfield County, Ohio, 1804. She was given 
to extend great hospitality, and possessed of wonderful 
energy and fine business foresight. 

Their homestead farm was the one on which 
Hooker Station is now located. 

This point was a favorite camping place with In- 
dians moving to the West. 



282 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

Here too, it is said, the Governor of the State came 
to Hft the first shovelful of earth for the Lateral Canal, 
and dined under the Tallman roof. 

Samuel Tallman was a man " whose word was as 
good as his bond," and led a most exemplary life. 

He was a carpenter and cabinetmaker, and built 
many of the log houses put up in Greenfield township 
in his day. He died at the early age of 50 years. 

This couple were buried beside her parents, in the 
Wells' family burying ground, now known as Hooker's. 

None of their immediate descendants live in Fair- 
field County at present. 

The ancestry of Samuel Tallman is of interest. 

He and his father were born in Berks County, 
Pennsylvania. His father and grandfather, William 
Tallman (Born in Rhode Island) moved to Virginia 
(Rockingham County) during the time of our national 
struggle for independence. The son was a member of 
Armand's Corps as part of his military service. It 
was in Virginia that Samuel Tallman grew to man- 
hood. 

His grandmother was Ann Lincoln, sister of John 
Lincoln, great-grandfather of the late president of the 
United States, Abraham Lincoln. His mother, Dinah 
Boone, was cousin to the famous Daniel Boone. 

These Boone fathers lived on adjoining farms in 
Pennsylvania. Their father, George Boone, was a 
Friend in faith, a friend of William Penn, and one of 
the earliest, permanent settlers in Berks County. 

Benjamin Tallman, father of Samuel Tallman, and 
Dinah Boone-Tallman, his wife, settled at Canal Win- 
chester, Ohio, where they died. 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 283 

Their youngest son, John, Hved and died at the 
same place. The late Judge Tallman Slough was a 
grandson of this man. 

Their eldest sort, William, and daughters Susannah 
Harrison, and Amrah Scothern, lived in Pickaway 
County. Phebe, daughter of William Tallman, was 
the beloved wife of Richard Plooker, of Turkey Run. 

Samuel Tallman preceded his family to Ohio to 
prepare a home for them. His wife, Sarah, came out 
with her brother-in-law, William Tallman, horseback, 
each of them carrying a child. The gray horse she 
rode belonged to her companion, and each time it 
scented a rattlesnake, refused to proceed until it had 
been killed. 

Sarah, a sister of Samuel Tallman, was ancestor 
of the Hintons of Highland County. 

Three of his sisters married three Harrison 
brothers. 

One of these sisters, Marie, did not come to Ohio, 
also two brothers. One other of these sisters, Susan- 
nah, has already been named. The third lived in Fair- 
field County. Her husband, John Harrison, was killed 
in the War of 1812, and is buried at Fort Meigs, this 
state. Her second husband was George Tong, a wid- 
ower, whom she married in 1818. He was a man of 
nobility of character, and much loved by the young. 

Two children of this marriage grew up, Margaret 
and George, who married Harriet Holmes. 

For this Tallman sketch we are indebted to Miss 
M. J. Roe, of Gilbert, Ohio. 

THE WILSONS. 
Nathaniel Wilson, Sr., was a native of Scotland. 
He with his parents were staunch Cameronian Pres- 
byterians and followed their leader, Robert Cameron, 



284 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

in an effort to free their church from- the domination 
of Charles the Second of England. 

The Presbyterians under Cameron met the English 
commander, the Duke of Monmouth, June 22, 1679, ^^ 
Bothwell Bridge and were defeated. Cameron and 
many of his followers were captured, among them Na- 
thaniel Wilson, then but 19 years of age. 

Cameron's hands were cut off with his own sword 
and it was then returned to him. As a mark of favor 
he presented it to Nathaniel Wilson, his youthful fol- 
lower. Wilson managed to make his escape, bearuig 
with him the sword of his leader. 

The persecution of the Presbyterians continued 
and he was obliged to flee the country, which he did, 
and landed in America. He settled in Cumberland 
County, Pennsylvania, Vvhere he married, reared a fam- 
ily, and died in 1753, bequeathing to his eldest son, 
Nathaniel, the old Scotch Bible, the sword of Cameron 
and his Presbyterian faith. This son, Nathaniel, con- 
tinued to reside in Pennsylvania until the year 1798, 
when he emigrated to Ohio and settled in Fairfield 
County. The old home is about three miles west of 
Lancaster. Pie built himself a cabin and placed over 
the door the famous sword of Cameron, and over n 
in large letters, " The Sword of the Lord, and of Gid- 
eon." 

Nathaniel Wilson died in 181 5 and bequeathed the 
old homestead to his son Nathaniel, the man most gen- 
erally referred to, when people speak of Nathaniel 
Wilson. 

Nathaniel Wilson, Sr., was an associate judge of 
the first court of this county. 

In 1817, N. Wilson, Jr., set aside a plat of ground 
for burial purposes, and to insure it from desecration. 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 285 

conveyed it to the President of the United States, 
October 24, 1817. 'ihe ground he subsequently en- 
closed by a high and strong stone wall and a young 
cedar of Lebanon was planted in the center, said to 
have come from Palestine. It is said that he took a 
personal interest in the work and was always there, and 
occasionally read a chapter from the old Scotch Bible. 

This stone enclosure was to be enclosed by a good 
fence, and to provide for keeping it up he planted a 
grove of locust trees near his home, and in his will of 
April 12, 1838, he gave the grove to President Martin 
Van Buren, to be used as provided in his will. These 
interesting land marks, of long ago, are still attractive 
spots and are visited by many people. We regret to 
see the grove despoiled by the present owners of the 
old home. " Woodmen, spare that tree." 

Mr. Wilson died May 12, 1839, before he had com- 
pleted the wall of his burial ground. His son Gustin 
Wilson, completed the work and complied with his 
father's will so long as he lived. 

Nathaniel Wilson, Sr., was one of the first county 
commissioners. Nathaniel Wilson, Jr., had four 
brothers, William, Robert, James and Samuel, and 
two sisters. 

Nathaniel Wilson married a Pennsylvania woman. 

They were parents of five children, tw<-> sons and 
three daughters. One son while yet a young man was 
killed by a falling tree, that he was cutting down. 

Gustin Wilson was born in 1806 and died in 1882. 
He married Margaret McClelland, niece of Col. John 
Noble. He was a most estimable man, a good citizen^ 
a good farmer and a staunch Presbyterian. Like all 
good men he revered and honored the memory of his 
father. 



286 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

His son Harvey is a clergyman of the Presbyterian 
Church and resides at Mackinac, Mich. 

Zella Wilson, daughter of Nathaniel, married Ste- 
phenson Peters, son of Samuel Peters of Amanda 
township. They settled in Walnut township Pickaway 
County, where members of the family still reside. 
Norman Peters occupies the homestead. 

Alice Wilson, married Nathan Peters, son of Sam- 
uel. Nathan moved to Marion, Ohio, where he spent 
a long and useful life and reared a good family. Mrs. 
Peters was buried in the stone graveyard beside her 
parents. 

Mendana Wilson married Joel Gallagher, a brother- 
in-law of Robinson J. Peters. They became owners of 
the old Nathaniel Wilson homestead and spent their 
lives there, in the peaceful pursuit of agriculture. A 
grand-daughter of this couple married Dr. Reese of 
Lancaster, Ohio. 

One of the daughters of Nathaniel Wilson, Sr., 
married a Larimer and they lived upon a farm in the 
neighborhood. 

Another married a Mr. Crocket of Tennessee. 

James Wilson married a Miss Edwards in 1802, but 
did not hve long, dying in 1807. His son John Wilson 
lived to an old age on a jjart of what is now the Carlisle 
farm. He sold out to Major Carhle and moved to 
Shelby County, Illinois. The widow of James Wilson, 
for her second husband, married Thomas Carlisle in 
18 1 3, and they reared quite a large family. Their son, 
B. W. Carlisle, was a prominent man and a State Sen- 
ator. 

Mrs. Carlisle was a sister of Mrs. Margaret Ewing, 
mother of Thomas E., William and James Ewing. Her 



Of F airfield County, Ohio. 287 

father lived in Ross County. She was a member of 
the Presbyterian Church. 

Thomas CarHsle came from Virginia in 1811, and 
died on his farm in 1844. He was a justice of the 
peace and a county commissioner. One of his sons, 
Dr. Carhsle, died in Arkansas. One of his daughters 
married Christian Graybill of IlHnois ; another George 
Allen of Illinois ; another John C. McFarland, and 
another a banker at Hillsboro, Ohio, Mr. Barrere. iMrs. 
Carlisle died January 14, 1866. 

Robert Wilson, son of Nathaniel, Sr., was born in 
Pennsylvania in 1774 and died on his farm in 1844. 
His wife was Jane Donovan, who was born in 1777. 
She died in 1865, aged 88 years. Newton D., born in 
181 1, died young; Josephine M., born in 1810, died 
young. James Madison was born in 1812, and lived 
and died a bachelor in California. He was a soldier 
of the Mexican War. Elizabeth Wilson, daughter of 
Robert Wilson, Sr., was born in 1813. She married 
F. A. Foster, a Lancaster, O., merchant. She died in 
the year 1898. She has a son living in St. Louis, and 
one living in Cincinnati, Ohio. 

Robert Wilson, son of Robert Wilson, Sr., was born 
in 1817. His wife was Mary Sweitzer, whose parents 
cai le from Switzcrlanrl. They were the parents of five 
children, two of whom are dead. Robert Wilson was a 
farmer all of his life and a good one. He was one of 
our best citizens, esteemed by his neighbors. We had 
no better citizens than Rol)ert Wilson. He was a 
prominent member of the Presbyterian Church. 

Daniel Webster when here visiting Senator Ewing 
in 1833 called upon Robert Wilson and enjoyed his 
hospitality. 



288 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

Smith Kerns Wilson, son of Robert Wilson, Sr., 
was born in 1821, and married a Miss Coney. He was 
for many years a prominent farmer of Hocking town- 
ship, and hoping to better his condition, he sold out and 
moved to Tennessee, where in a short time he was killed 
by the bullet of an assassin. His family left the in- 
hospitable country and moved to Colorado. 

We have not been able to learn what became of the 
Cameron sword. It seems to have been lost. Such a 
rare relic ought to have been preserved. 

Samuel Wilson, son of Nathaniel Wilson, Sr., was 
born in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. He was 
married to Miss Jane Martin. He came with his 
father to Ohio in 1798. He lived upon the farm where 
Frank Peters now lives. They were the parents of five 
or six children. Samuel was in the war of 1812 and 
died soon after his discharge. His widow died at the 
home of her son in Peoria.. 111. 

Elizabeth a daughter of this couple was born in 
1809 'i^f^ married John M. Woodward, a carpenter, in 
1833. Woodward worked upon the old Presbyterian 
church. He lived for a time in Logan and died in 
lUuffton. Indiana, in 1881. His \\\ic died in Lan- 
caster, in 1895. Their son Sanniel lives in Columbus, 
and Asa !>. Woodward lives in Madison, Iowa. He is 
a steamboat ca]:)tain. Sarah J., married Jacob Bum- 
gardncr, a Lancaster blacksmith. 

Margaret married James Ruff of Logan. Lorain 
married William Stuckey, son of Joseph Stuckey, of 
Carthage. Missouri. Ruth married Augustus Magoon 
in Logan. Ohio. Josiah Wilson, son of Samuel, lived 
and died in Peoria, Illinois ; never married. John Wil- 
son, son of Samuel, lived in Franklin County. 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 289 

Margaret Wilson married William Thompson. 
They lived in Ross and Brown Counties, and finally in 
Illinois. Samuel Dudley Wilson, son of Samuel, was 
a farmer and a merchant in Washburn, 111., and moved 
from there to Peoria, III, where he died. 

William Wilson, son of Nathaniel, Sr., married 
Rachel, daughter of General James Wells and lived 
upon the farm now owned by his son James Wells Wil- 
son. We refer the reader to the sketch of the Wells 
family for information in regard to his family. 

THE CRUMLEY FAMILY. 

The ancestor of the Crumley family was Valentine 
Gramlich, who immigrated to this country from the 
Duchy of Wibertemberg, Germany. He arrived at Phil- 
adelphia September 19, 1749. Valentine and his sons 
founded the Lutheran Church at Weisenberg town- 
ship, in Lehigh County, Penn., soon after their settle- 
ment in that county, in 1749. Valentine Crumley was 
a man of influence and high standing in his county, 
and a leading public spirited citizen. He was the 
father of five children, viz., George, who died near 
Danville, Penn. ; Paul, who died at the old homestead ; 
Daniel, Ann M., and Christian moved to Ohio as early 
as 1805. Gramlich soon became Crumley. 

Three sons of Paul moved to Ohio in 181 5 — 
Jonathan, Jacob and Paul. They settled in Pickaway 
County, Ohio. Paul died March, 1826. He left four 
sons, James, Stephen, Thomas and William. William 
was born in Pennsylvania March 19, 1813, and he died 
May, 1888, aged 75 years. He was the father of the 
Hon. T. E. Crumley, late a trustee of the Boys' Indus- 
trial School, and State Senator from Pickaway 
County, Ohio. 

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290 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

Daniel Crumley, late of Bloom township, was a son 
of Christian Crumley. He was born in Bloom town- 
ship, December ii, 1807. He married Miss Jane 
Beeten, daughter of Peter Beeten. She was born 
July 5, 181 1. Their children numbered fourteen, and 
nine of them preceded him to the grave. Those living 
at the time of his death, November 30, 1891, were 
Mrs. A. W. Killits, of Chicago, 111. ; Mrs. T. J. Arnold, 
Lancaster, Ohio; Mrs. W. H. Stallsmith, Girard, 
Ohio; E. M. Crumley, Springfield, Ohio, and A. I. 
Crumley, Lithopolis, Ohio. 

Daniel Crumley was a very prominent and useful 
man in his township. He was a Justice of the Peace 
for twelve years, and was for several terms a town- 
ship trustee. He was a very competent administrator 
on estates, and settled up twenty-five in his life time. 
His second wife was a Mrs. Buxton of the County of 
Licking. 

Mr. Crumley was an upright, honorable man, 
widely known and highly esteemed. He was a bro- 
ther of Conrad Crumley of Hocking township, and 
grandfather of Frank Crumley of the Lancaster 
Gazette. 

Conrad Crumley, son of Christian and Salome 
Crumley, was born in Penn township, Northampton 
County, Penn., on the 24th of January, 1802 ; his par- 
ents were Lutherans and the infant Conrad was bap- 
tized and brought up in that faith. 

In the year 1803 Christian Crumley with his fam- 
ily, left Pennsylvania to seek a new home in Ohio. 
They made a temporary stop in Lancaster, and during 
that time one of his children died. He purchased a 
section of woodland in Bloom township, built a cabin 
and moved his family to the new home, about one mile 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 291 

west of Rock Mill. Here young Conrad remained un- 
til he became a man. He assisted his father in clear- 
ing up his farm, and tasted the joys and endured the 
privations of pioneer life. When i8 years of age he was 
confirmed a member of the Lutheran Church, and to 
the end of his life was a faithful member and a con- 
sistent Christian. His membership at this time was at 
the Click church, Rev. M. J. Steck, pastor. 

On two occasions Christian Crumley loaded flat 
boats at Gallipolis for New Orleans. Conrad drove 
the team that carried, or drew, the produce to load 
these boats. He made nine trips in one winter, 
through an almost unbroken forest to Gallipolis, a 
distance of one hundred miles. 

February 23, 1824, Conrad Crumley was married 
to Miss Mary M. Feller. He then settled upon a 
quarter section of land donated by his father, entirely 
in the woods. He lived in a rude cabin and devoted 
his energies to clearing up his farm, where his son 
Daniel now resides, in Hocking township. 

Here he lived a quiet, peaceful life for forty-one 
years, and reared a large family of children, eleven in 
number. Two of his sons were in the Union army. 
After the war two of them, George and Daniel, were 
in Columbus and took passage on the same coach with 
Colonel McVeigh and family. The coach was upset 
and McVeigh and his son were killed. The Crumley 
boys remained with the family and brought the dead 
to Lancaster. When a friend spoke to the old man 
and praised his boys for their good conduct, tears 
came to his eyes and he replied : "T am proud of my 
boys." 



292 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

Conrad Crumley was one of the grand old men 
of the past, one whose example for good was felt in 
a very large circle of acquaintances. He was for a 
number of years a trustee of St. Peter's Lutheran 
Church, Lancaster, and later of Trinity, near his home. 
He died March 8, 1879, aged 77 years. He had been 
married 55 years. His son David married Sarah, a 
daughter of the late Daniel Ward. 

John Married Catharine Miller of this county. 
Peter married Catharine, a daughter of the iate 
George H. Strode. Daniel married Rebecca Strode. 
They live on the old Crumley farm. Daniel was a 
Union soldier during the war. George married Ma- 
tilda Brobst. Mary became the wife of Daniel Hoff- 
man. Elizabeth is the wife of Amos Graham. All 
are farmers and have fine homes in the neighborhood 
where they were born and raised. 

There are many grandchildren and great-grand- 
children of Conrad Crumley, but the list is too long 
for special mention. 

THE GRAHAM FAMILY 

The Graham family is not a large one, but for one 
hundred years it has been an honored and respected 
one in the United States, and for seventy-five years 
well known and esteemed in Fairfield County. Wil- 
liam Graham was one of the early teachers of Fairfield 
County, a class of men who deserve immortal honor, 
for they taught under great difficulties and were faith- 
ful and earnest in their work. 

.\rthur Graham, the ancestor, was born in Tyrone 
county, Ireland. He came to the LInited States about 
the year 1791 and landed in the city of Baltimore. He 
was then 19 years of age. He came with an uncle 



Of FairMd County, Ohio. 293 

and several cousins, but it is not known that any one 
of his own family ever came to America. 

He married Nancy Hanna, who was reared about 
five miles below Hagerstown, Md. To them were born 
three sons and two daughters. William, the oldest 
son, was born near Hagerstown, June 4. 1799. Eliz- 
abeth, the second child, married Leonard Bumgardner. 
Samuel married Nancy Thomas. James, the fourth 
child, married Nancy Givens. James died in 1896 
in Scioto County, Ohio, aged 90 years. Fanny, the 
youngest daughter, married James Givens and they 
lived and died in Pike County, Ohio. 

Arthur Graham was a man of giant strength and 
famous for his feats in that line. He at one time 
carried nine bushels of rye some distance and ascended 
five or six steps with the burden on his back. These 
things are remembered, for the strong man was in 
pioneer times the pride of his neighbors. 

William, of whom and his family we have more 
particularly to sketch, at the age of twenty-two years 
married the widow of John C. Flood, whose liusband 
was a soldier of the war of 1812, and died in the hos- 
pital at Norfolk, Va. She was the mother of the late 
John C. Flood and Washington Flood of Lancaster, 
Ohio. 

The Floods were Virginia slaveholders, and the 
grandfather of John C. and Washington willed them 
an interest in his slaves. These slaves were eman- 
cipated thirty years before Abraham Lincoln issued his 
famous proclamation of emancipation. William Gra- 
ham and his wife lived on Patterson creek, Hampshire 
County, Va. On the 20th of October, 1822, he placed 
his family and his belongings in a Conestoga wagon 
drawn by four horses — wife and babe, his two step- 



294 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

sons, and two nephews, Henry and August Burnham, 
constituted his family. They turned their faces to 
the far west, and crossing the north branch of the 
Potomac at Washington bottoms, made their way to 
Carter's tavern, five miles west of Cumberland, and 
followed the emigrant road over the mountains to 
Brownsville, thence to Washington, Penn., and on to 
Wheeling, on the Ohio river. 

In crossing the river their cow refused to go upon 
the boat and swam the river ; becoming confused, she 
turned back to the shore whence she started. In time 
she was got over, but swam the river three times in so 
doing. From Wlieeling they passed through St. 
Clairsville. Cambridge and Zanesville, over the old 
Zane trace. This was before the national pike was 
built. Arriving at Lancaster, they turned south to 
Madison township, where William Graham had, while 
in Virginia, rented a farm of one Philip Welsheimer. 
When he reached the farm he found that it had b'^en 
sold to Major John V. Pearse. 

Here his trouble began. For two weeks he hunted 
for a farm, without success, leaving his goods in his 
wagon. He was finally compelled to place his family 
in an old school house with a dirt floor. Here his 
family remained over winter, he teaching a school in 
the neighborhood, his wife and boys taking care of 
the team and cow. In the spring of 1823 he rented the 
Robert Cisna farm, one mile west of Lancaster, now 
owned by Dr. C. E. Reese. Here they lived six 
years. During these years his sons, George and 
Amos were born. In 1829 they rented the Christian 
King farm, the same where Charles Creed now lives. 
About this time King built the oil-mill, afterwards 
changed to a grist mill, and lately torn down by Henry 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 295 

C. Weaver. About the year 1832 he bought 80 acres 
of school land, to which ne moved his family in 1833, 
and where his family was reared. The old Graham 
home is familiar to all Hocking township people. 

His wife died at this home June 12, 1869. In tRe 
year 1870, Mr. Graham sold his farm and moved to 
Logan, where he married Mrs. M. A. Lyons. He 
died in Logan, February 8, 1875. His widow sur- 
vived him several years. 

The daughter, the six-months babe that came over 
the mountains in the wagon, on the 6th of April, 1844, 
married C. F. Griner. Griner was a fine scholar and 
a special friend of the late Dr. John Williams. He 
was the architect and builder of the famous stone wall 
around the graves of Nathaniel Wilson and family. 
He broke down soon after this work was completed 
and for several years was an invalid. He died leaving 
a wife and five children. 

William A. Griner, of Delaware, Ohio, Edward 
Griner, a soldier of the Union army, now deceased ; 
George G. Griner, also a soldier, who died in a Louis- 
ville (Ky.) hospital; C. F. Griner, now deceased, and 
Susan, wife of William Barr of Amanda, were his 
children. His widow became the third wife of Fred 
A. Shaeffer. 

George Graham, son of William Graham, married a 
daughter of John Morgan, whose wife was a McCleery. 
He lived near Carroll and reared a family of children. 
In 1875 he moved to DeWitt County, Illinois, where 
his wife died and where his children married. He 
married a widow named Stone. He moved to Kansas, 
back to Illinois, and from there to Oklahoma, where 
he now resides. 



296 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

Amos, the youngest son of William Graham, mar- 
ried Elizabeth, daughter of Conrad Crumley. Amos 
was a school teacher in his young days and well qual- 
ified for the profession. But he soon settled down as 
a farmer and has ever since followed that occupation, 
either in Amanda or Hocking township of this county. 
He has been successful and owns a fine home — once 
owned by F. A. Shaeffer. He reared a good family 
of boys and girls, and enjoys the happiness that such 
a family only can bring to a parent. One daughter 
married S. E. Cullumber and resides in Pickaway 
County ; Francis and Myrta reside at home ; George A., 
John L., Dr. W. C. and Edward Boyd are good bus- 
iness men, highly esteemed, and are prospering. 
Amos Graham and family are prominent members of 
the Presbyterian Church. 

THE CLAYPOOL FAMILY. 

"Not to know from whence we came, not care any- 
thing about our ancestors, is to detract from the honor 
and gratitude due them." 

The Claypools were distinguished people among 
the pioneers of Licking, Fairfield and Ross Counties. 
Tliey were O'f the bluest blue blood of Virginia and 
able to trace their ancestry back in an unbroken line to 
a time when English history was little more than a 
tradition. 

James Claypool lived at Waldrum Park, North- 
amptonshire, England. Like other gentlemen of the 
period he was granted a coat-O'f-arms June 17, i583. 
John Claypool married Elizabeth, the favorite daughter 
of Oliver Cromwell. The tomb is pointed out to 
visitors, in Westminster Abbey. James Claypool, 
brother of John, witnessed the signature of William 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 297 

Penn to the charter of Pennsylvania. Norton Clay- 
pool, brother also of John, was the first to emigrate 
to America. 

Betsy Ross, who lived in Philadelphia, and mar- 
ried a John Claypool, made the first United States flag, 
the stars and stripes. Her portrait and the history 
of the flag was in the magazines during the last year. 
We cannot go into full details of this large family, but 
must be confined to the Ohio branch. The grandfather 
of Jacob Claypool, who came to this country, was 
James Claypool. He lived and died on Lost River, 
Hardy County, Virginia, on the south branch of the 
Potomac. He was born February 14, 1701, and died 
October 9, 1789. His son James was born December 
I, 1730. He married Margaret Dunbar, October 31, 
1753- She was born November 20, 1736, and died 
March 26, 1813. James Claypool died August 11, 
181 1. They were the parents of nine daughters and 
three sens. The daughters of James Claypool (b. 
1730) and Margaret Dunbar were (in order of birth) : 
I. Ann, m. Archibald Wilson; 2. Hannah, m. ist John 
Watson, m. 2nd William Evans ; 3. Jane, m. William 
Peppers ; 4. Margaret, m. David Thomas ; 5. Esther, 
m. Jeremiah Jaco'bs : 6. Ruth, m. Robert Denton ; 7. 
Rachel, m. John Rerry ; 8. Rhoda, m. Joseph Jcfifer- 
ies : 9. Elizabeth, m. John Woolard ; 10. Tirzah, 
m. \\'esley Blizzard. The sons were Abra- 
ham, Isaac and Jacob, and that was the order in which 
they were born. Abraham was born in Hardy County, 
Virginia, April 2, 1762. Abraham was one of the 
very early settlers of Ross County, Ohio. He reared 
a family of children, most of whom moved to Fountain 
and other counties of Indiana. Abraham was a very 
prominent man and represented his county several 



298 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

terms in the Ohio Legislature. This was prior to 
i8[0. His descendants are distinguished people of 
Indiana. Solomon Claypool, of Indianapolis, was 
Common Pleas Judge at Covington on the Wabash, 
and an able lawyer and an upright man. He is a 
pleasant gentleman to meet, cordial and sincere, as 
the writer found him. He is one of the distinguished 
men of Indiana. Edward F. Claypool is a business 
man of large wealth and resides in Indianapolis. Mrs. 
Virginia C. Meredith, daughter of Austin B. Claypool, 
and widow of Henry Clay Meredith (son of General 
Solomon Meredith), was the business manager of the 
Board of Lady Managers, World's Fair, and wrote 
the ofificial report of the board for Congress. Mr. A. 
L. Claypool, the brother-in-law of John Book waiter, 
and living in Springfield, Ohio, is a brother of Judge 
Claypool. 

Abraham Claypool married Elizabeth Wilson. 
Isaac Claypool was born February 7, 1769. He mar- 
ried a A4iss Wilkin and they settled in Ross County 
They were not blessed with children. 

Jacob, the Fairfield pioneer, was born March 17, 
1775. He married Margaret Baker, O'f Rockingham 
County, Virginia, March 5, 1799. They came to Ohio 
about October 21, 181 1. The wife died June 22, 1828. 
He was married the second time to Mrs. Neil, of Ross 
County. Jacob died October 27, 1843. He first came 
to Ohio in the year 1805 and purchased the original 
farm 011 which Isaac his son now lives. It had been 
occupied by squatters up to that time, James Brooks, 
a Mr. Crook and Drake Taylor. The place was called 
"Yankeetown" by the early settlers. He built a hewed 
log house for his family — the same, in part, now oc- 
cupied by Isaac Claypool. Jacob Claypool received 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 29^ 

a good education, especially in mathematics, and he 
qualified himself for a land surveyor. During the first 
twenty years of his residence in this county he was 
largely engaged in that business. The papers he left 
behind are beautiful specimens of drafting. He was 
methodical, accurate and an accomplished penman. 
His superior education and fine mind soon gave him 
a leading position in the county and in Lancaster, 
where he was highly esteemed. Upon the organization 
of the Lancaster Bank in 1816 he was elected one of 
the directors, as was his neighbor Richard Hooker. 
In the same year he was elected to the lower House of 
the Legislature, was reelected in 18 18 and again in 
1822. In 1824 he was elected a member of the Ohia 
senate. He supported the preliminary legislation that 
secured for us the Ohio Canals and the Common School 
system. He was one of the first Fairfield County men 
to drive cattle to the Eastern markets and he continued 
the business to within three years of his death. His 
son Isaac, when a youth, accompanied him on such 
trips to Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York. In 
the year 1826 the Barrett Woolen Mill at the upper 
falls of Hockhocking burned down and the owner was 
unable to rebuild. The Legislature gave authority for 
a lottery and the Common Pleas Court appointed Jacob 
Claypool, Samuel F. Mccracken and John Creed com- 
missioners to conduct it, and in this wav it was rebuilt 
and leased for a term to Joshua Clark and Colonel 
John Noble. 

Jacob Claypool was a man of unusual business 
capacity, honest, correct and with the ability to dis- 
patch business, a great quality in a business man. H ^ 
was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and 
belonged to the Lancaster society. He was a liberal 



300 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

contributor to the expense of building the present 
church edifice, but did not live to see it fully dedicated. 
But few men lived in this county more highly esteemed 
in life or more sincerely lamented in death. 

Jacob and Margaret Claypool were the parents 
of three daughters and six sons. Emma was born 
April 2, 1800. She married Joseph Grubb October 19, 
1820. Reverend Thomas A. Morris, then the Metho- 
dist pastor at Lancaster, afterwards a Bishop, officiated. 
She died May 20, 1832. They were the parents of 
Jacob Grubb, long a well known and wealthy farmer 
of this and Ross County. Elizabeth was born August 
17, 1 801. She married Stephen Yale March 12, 1822, 
and died September 10, 1823. Mary was born January 
12, 1803, and died August 13, 1823. Albert was born 
December 5, 1806. He was married to his first wife, 
Rachel Hooker, daughter of Richard Hooker, of Tur- 
key Run, March 25, 1826. His second wife was a 
Miss Rebecca Mounts, of Warren County, Ohio. Al- 
bert Claypool was a splendid specimen of the physical 
man. For many years he was a large and prosperous 
farmer in this county. He reared quite a family of 
children, who filled or are filling honorable and use- 
ful positions in life. Albert late in life moved to 
Warren County, where he died November 2, 1862. 

Wesley Claypool was born February 15, 18 10. He 
married Catharine McNeil November 9, 1830. He died 
June 25, 1877. His wife died February 22, 1879, at her 
home in Chillicothe, Ohio. Wesley Claypool was a 
man of more than ordinary ability and in his prime a 
successful farmer and cattle feeder. He represented 
Ross County as a Whig two or three times in the Gen- 
eral Assembly of Ohio. He was a man of fine apT)ear- 
ance, companionable and made friends. His farm at 



Oj Fairfield County, Ohio. 801 

Higli Bank, below Chillicothe, was a fine one and well 
managed. Felix was born March 8, 1812, and died 
September i, 1826. Jacob was born July 23, 1816, 
and died May 26, 1835, in the citv of Philadelphia. 
Issac Claypool was born January 29, 1821. He mar- 
ried Nancy Meason August 17, 1843, the daughter 
of John Meason. She was born January 22, 182 1, and 
died October 16, 1855. He married a second wife, 
Sarah A. Pierce, March 18, 1858. She was born in 
Dover, New Hampshire, November 15, 1836; she died 
March 18, 1893. Annie E. Cosgrove v^as his third 
wife. They were married August i, 1895. She was 
born in Mifflin county, Penn., April 9, 1843, ^"^1 died 
very suddenly March 23, 1898. Isaac Claypool has 
been all his long life a farmer and lives upon the farm 
and in the house where he was born. His father train- 
ed him to purchase, drive and handle cattle, and in this 
he was successful. He was the life long friend of 
John T. Brasee, and when a young man purchased for 
him his feeding cattle. Mr. Brasee had implicit con- 
fidence in his judgment and in his integrity. For a 
young man to have had the confidence and friendship 
of John T. Brasee was an honor to be proud of. Isaac 
Claypool commenced his career with two hundred acres 
of good land. He added to this farm from time to 
time until it became one of the very largest and best 
in the county. The home farm of 600 or more acres is 
a beauty and the admiration of all who behold it. Mr. 
Claypool has reared and fairly educated a large family 
of children. He is a public spirited citizen, liberal and 
generous. He is a Republican, but never took an 
active or aggressive part in politics. His sons repre- 
sent the family in politics. He spent three years of his 
life in Lancaster, but upon his second marriage moved 



^02 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

to his farm. His sons were Jacob, who married Tru- 
phenie Weist, daughter of Jacob Weist, was born Aug. 
26, 1846. He Hves upon a good farm near Hookers. 
He has been president of the Agricultural Society and 
received a very complimentary support for County 
commissioner. James Bruce married Elizabeth Peters, 
daughter of Newton Peters. He was born Oct. 23, 
1850. He resides upon his farm adjoining his brother 
Jacob. He is a good farmer and a breeder of fine 
horses. Frank P. married Elizabeth Prindle, daugh- 
ter of Myron Prindle. He was born April 16, 1859, 
and resides in Lancaster. John Reber married Henri- 
etta Carnes, daughter of John Carnes. He was born 
March 11, 1861, and resides upon the home farm with 
his father. His wife is one of the stylish young dames 
of Greenfield. Isaac Claypool's daughters are Anna, 
Mary, Emma Eliza McCowan, Nancy Jane Caldwell, 
Ida Pierce Shell, Ada Maud Creighton. 

Albert Claypool had three sons, Felix, James and 
Jacob. Felix was born Aug. 7, 1827 and died in New 
York City Sept. 2, 1865. James died Feb. 14, 1873, 
at his home in the state of Illinois. Jacob died at Ran- 
toul, Illinois, July 5, 1891. His wife was a Rankin, of 
Licking County, Ohio. His daughter, Mary Elizabeth 
Cochran, was born in 1832, and lives in Emporia. Kan- 
sas. Martha Cochran was born March 12, 1834, and 
died Oct. 10, 1868. Florence Edith Mounts was born 
Nov. 26, 1872, and lives near Clarksburg, Ohio. Ber- 
tha B. Howell was born March 25, 1875 and lives at 
Fulsom, New Mexico. Josephine married E. B. 
White, of Lancaster, Ohio, Oct. 7, 1864. She was 
born Aug. 26, 1843. White is a successful business 
man of Lancaster. His son, Albert Claypool, has lit- 
erary talents and possesses high merit as a writer of 



Of Fair Held County, Ohio. 303 

sketches. He is well read and has seen much of the 
world. He was born Oct. 5, 1865. He married Miss 
Daisy Swartz, daughter of Joel Swartz. She was one 
of the belles of Berne township. 

Wesley Claypool had three sons, but they did not 
live to reach man's estate. This was one of the sor- 
rows of Wesley's life. Four of his daughters lived to 
marry and raise families. Margaret Ann married W. 
R Foster, of a prominent Ross County family. Sarah 
E. married George Davis, one of the foremost busi- 
ness men of Portsmouth in his time — both now dead. 
Jane P. married Dennis Rennick, of one of the pio- 
neer families most widely known in the Scioto valley. 
They lived for a year or two on the south side of the 
Van Meter prairie, two miles east of Lancaster. Wes- 
ley Claypool opposed this union and held out for some 
time, but the sight of the first born child, when able to 
be fondled by him, melted the old man's heart and all 
was forgiven. 

"The silence often, of pure innocence. 
Persuades, when speaking fails." 

A Winter's Tale. — 

James Claypool, born in 1730, the founder of the 
family we have described, had a brother named John, 
born in 1832, who had a family of boys, and lived in 
Hardy County, Va. There was also a Philadelphia 
branch, large and respectable. There were in all 
branches twenty-three John Claypools. Levi Clay- 
pool was a Virginian and a grandson, 011 his mother's 
side, of Mathias Miller, a familiar Virginia name. 

Norton Fravel Claypool, who was a very promi- 
nent citizen and farmer on the Licking river, near the 



304 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

Black Hand, was a son of Levi. Norton was a very- 
fine looking man, as the writer well remembers. He 
reared two sons, who are very intelligent business men. 
Wm. O. Claypool, of the T. R. & W. Railroad, and 
Edward A., of Chicago, 111. The Claypool family 
produced many preachers, lawyers, doctors and pro- 
fessors. 

There are but few families in the United States 
able to trace their lineage back through English records 
five hundred years. There are but few families, if 
any, that have, a cleaner record than the Claypools. 

THE MEASON, CHERRY AND BEAR FAMILIES. 

Thomas Meason, Sr., of Berkeley County, Virginia,. 
was born February 22, 1707. Elizabeth, his wife, was 
born April 2, 1721. They moved to Fayette county, 
Pennsylvania. Their children, twelve in number, were : 
Hannah, born May 3, 1737; Samuel, born November 
8, 1739; Isaac, born August 15, 1743; George, born 
February 6, 1746; Rachel, born November 6, 1749; 
Sarah, February 15, 1751 ; John, February 22, 1753; 
Thomas, July 17, 1755; Joseph, July 7, 1759; Anne, 
January 27, 1761 ; Mary, January 22, 1763, Elizabeth. 
May II, 1765. 

Colonel John Meason, seventh son of Thomas, was 
born h^bruary 22, 1753, in Berkeley County, Va. He 
married Hannah Frost, who was born December 23, 
1 75 1. They moved to Fayette County, Pa. They 
were the parents of ten children. — Isaac was born 
November 20, 1773, and died February 26, 1845 5 Ehza- 
beth, born April 2, 1776; Martha was born May 20, 
1779; Hannah was born June i, 1782; John was born 
September 7, 1784; Nancy was born May 4. 1787; 
Mary wa.^ 1)orn May 9, 1789, Thomas was born June 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 305 

i8, 1791 ; Francis, January 20, 1794; and George, Jan- 
uary 12, 1798. 

Isaac Meason, son of Thomas Meason, was born in 
Fayette County, Pennsylvania, November 20, 1773. 
He married Rached Cherry, daughter of Ralph Cherry 
and Annie Meek, his wife. She was born June 17, 
1774. Ralph Cherry died April 25, 1836. 

Isaac Meason and wife came to Fairfield county, 
Ohio, in 1799, and settled near the present Summit 
church in Greenfield, where the Masons still own the 
land. They were both buried in the Wells graveyard 
near Hooker. 

They were the parents of nine children : John Mea- 
son, son of Isaac was born March 26, 1795 ; Ralph 
Meason, was born September 29, 1797, and died No- 
vember 15, 1799; Hiram Meason was born May 10, 
1799, and died June 3, 1802; Jeremiah was born Au- 
gust I, 1801, and died May 18, 1825, and was buried in 
the Wells graveyard. Elijah was born March 20, 
1804, and died January 31, 1823 ; Enoch was born Au- 
gust 24, 1806, and died July 28, 1822 ; Isaac Whatcoat 
was born February 21, 1809, and died April 25, 1852, 
and was buried in Wells graveyard. Nancy Miranda 
was born October 14, 181 1; she married Mr. Baxter, 
moved to Lima, and died there. George Wesley was 
born April 11, 1814, and died January 16, 1847. 

John Meason, son of Isaac and Rachel, was born in 
Fayette County, Pennsylvania, five miles northeast of 
Uniontown. Anna, his first wife, was born in May, 
1798, and died Jan. 11, 1830, aged thirty-one years. 
She was a daughter of John and Elizabeth Bear. The 
second wife of John Meason was a Miss Elizabeth 
Haver, sister of Peter Haver of Walnut township. 

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306 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

John Meason lived a long and honorable life near the 
summit in Greenfield and died in 1876, aged 84 years. 
He was the father of seven children. 

Rachel was born Decemljer 10. 18 17. She married 
Solomon Clippinger and moved to Iowa. 

Mary was born October 17, 1819. She married 
John Neel, and moved to Lima, ( ). Nancy was born 
January 22, 1821. She married Isaac Claypool. Her 
sons, Jacob and James Claypool, are prosperous farm- 
ers and reputable citizens of Greenfield. Elijah E. 
was born January 26, 1823. He lived for years on the 
George Meason farm at the Summit. Isaac Jerome 
was born September 30, 1825; he died young. Sallie 
Elizabeth was liorn November 10, 1827; she married 
Elijah Winters. Their son, John M. Winters, is now 
postmaster of Carroll, Ohio. Anna Miranda was 
born January 3. 1830. She was the second wife of 
Samuel Baxter, late of Lima, Ohio. 

Isaac Meason was one of the most noted of the pio- 
neers for strength and activit}-. h^cw men, if any, 
among the pioneers could throw him in a wrestling 
match and only W^alter McFarland, his friend and 
neiglibor, could lift a hca\ier load. 

Tie once niet a famous athletic Indian in a wrest- 
ling hnnt. His friends feared that he had found his 
match, but he throw him three times in sticcession. At 
the raising of Honker's l)ani, Walter McFarland car- 
ried one of the squru'c ])];\tes a few steps, that required 
.six men to lift it and place it u])()n his shoulders. Such 
were the annisemenls id' the i)ioneers. Every neigh- 
borhood had its chamjiion. 

John i\Teeks, Dorsey Meason, the Cherry l;)rotliers 
and the liears were neighbors and relatives of Isaac 



Of Fairfield Comity, Ohio. 307 

A'leason. The old people were buried at the Wells 
graveyard. 

Xathaniel Cherry, Ralph Cherry, Thomas Cherry 
and William Cherr}', late of Walnut township, were 
sons of Thomas Cherry, a relative of the Greenfield 
Cherrxs. Thev are all dead and but few of their de- 
scendants remain in the county. Mrs. Wm. Murphey 
and her children, of ]\[illersport ; Frank Cherry and 
sisters, of Lancaster; Mrs. Samuel Wiseman and 
r.rook Cdierry, of New Salem; Mrs. Lightnecher, of 
ThursidU, are about all that remain in the county. 

r)r. L,eoni(las ]\leason. son of Doi'sey ^leason, lives 
in JUulTton, Indiana. 

George A. Meason, son of Dorsey. is another, 
and lives in. Montpelier, Indiana. 

i-'ranci'^ IMeason, daughter of Col. John ?\Ieason, 
married Judge William Salter in Fayette County, Pa. 
Tliey moved west and were early settlers in I'ortsmouth, 
( )h.io. \\ here Judge Salter was a leading citizen and 
(jne of die pioneers in the manufacture of pig-iron. 

Samuel j'.axter. whose two v/ives were both Mea- 
sons, w;is fur man}' years a business man of Lancaster. 
He studied law xvith Governor ^Med.ill and located m 
Liiua. ( ).. where he was a successful man and acquired 
property. Dr. Sanuiel L.axter, son of his first wife, 
is a ]>j-(!r.unent business man of Lima. 

Hen.ry o.ud Alfred Neel, sons of John Xeel. located 
in Toledo, (). They are prominent and very success- 
ful bu.siuesv n.iL'U of that cit\-. 

Dr. George F. IMeason, son of i^lijah L. Meason, 
lives in the city of IMilwaukee, John in Columbus. 

J'clix N. Meason, son of Isaac Whatcoat Meason, 
lives in Carroll, O. A daughter of George W. Meason 
married John Stanbery, of Greenfield. 



308 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

CHERRY FAMILY 

Ralph Cherry, son of Thomas and Rachel Cherry, 
was born July lo, 1744, and Anne Cherry, daughter of 
Jeremiah and Sarah Meek, was born June — , 1750. 
Were married October 10, 1765. They were the par- 
ents of three children. 

1. Moses, born July 10, 1766, died January i, 
1782. 

2. Jeremiah, born July 24, 1772, died August 16, 
1801. 

3. Rachel, born January 17, 1774. 

Ralph Cherry, Sr., was an early settler on the head 
waters of the Hockhocking, and formerly was one of 
the first emigrants to Westmoreland County, Pa. 
He died in Greenfield township, July 22, 1820, aged 
yy years. His wife Anne followed him on September 
2y, 1822, aged y2 years. Their remains lie in the old 
Wells cemetery at Hooker; also their children. 

Here their relatives, the pioneer Measons and 
Meeks were buried. 

Jeremiah Cherry, son of Ralph and Anne, married 
Elizabeth, daughter of John and Hannah (Frost) 
Meason, in 1794. Three children were born to them. 

1. Ralph Cherry, Jr., born February 23, 1795. 

2. Sarah, born May 14, 1797. 

3. John Meason Cherry, born March 16, 1800. 
Rachel Cherry, sister of Jeremiah and daughter of 

Ralph and Anne Cherry, married Isaac Meason, son 
of John and Hannah M., in 1794. 

Ralph Cherry, Jr., married Ruth Martin, who died 
in 1826. He afterwards married Mrs. Sallie Comer, 
daughter of John and Elizabeth Bear, and removed to 
Allen County. Their descendants live in Allen, Au- 
glaize and Union counties. 



Of t airfield County, Ohio. 309 

Sarah Cherry married George Bear in 1816 and 
subsequently moved to Allen County. Descendants 
moved westward. Coffey County, Kan., contains a 
large number. Van Wert County, Ohio, is the home 
of some others of the family. 

BEAR FAMILY 

John and Elizabeth Bear emigrated from Rocking- 
ham County, Va. Their children were : 

Katie, who married Philip Lamb, and whose de- 
scendants, the families of Philip, Jr., and Peter Lamb, 
reside in this county. George W. Lamb, of Hooker; 
Noah, John and Irvin, of Carroll, are sons of Peter 
Lamb. The daughters are Mrs. Henry Coffman, 
Mrs. Belle Beatty, of Carroll, and Rachel Flood, of 
Lancaster. Polly married James Steadman and moved 
to northern Ohio. 

Sarah Bear married twice. First David Comer, 
second Ralph Cherry, and moved to Allen County, 
Ohio. 

George Bear married Sarah Cherry, sister to Ralph 
Cherry, in 181 6 and removed to Allen County, Ohio. 

Betsey Bear married Daniel Miller in 1817 and 
lived in Allen County. Joseph Miller, a son, resides 
with his daughter, Mrs. George Kester, of Greenfield 
township. 

Adam Bear married a Steadman and moved to Iowa. 

Anne Bear married John Meason in 1817. (See 
Meason family.) 

Coffey County, Kansas, is the home of a large num- 
ber of the Bear descendants ; also Van Wert and Au- 
glaize Counties in Ohio. 

For the preceding sketch of the Cherry, Bear and 
Winter connections of the Measons, the writer is m- 



310 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

debtee! to Mary E. Winter, of Carroll ; a daughter of 
Elijah Winter and granddaughter of John Meason. 

WINTER FAMILY 

Jacob Winter was an early settler in Walnut town- 
ship, born in 1760, died in Baltimore in 1827. He had 
two sons, Benjamin and Abraham. Benjamin died 
young in 1829, but left seven children. 

Samuel, the oldest, lives in Effingham County, Ills., 
and is a farmer. He was captain in the army during 
the rebellion. He married Jane Turner. 

Isaac, a merchant tailor in Charleston, Ills., mar- 
ried Kate Strode, of Hocking township. 

Esther, born 1821, married Wm. Lee^ moved to 
Iowa and now lives in Clinton. Have a large family 
in Iowa and other western states. 

Elijah, born 1823, was married to Sallie E. Meason 
in 1846, and who died in 1873 leaving seven children. 
In 1875 he married Catharine Berger and has two 
children by this marriage. 

Of this union Cora M. is the wife of F. E. Wilson, 
superintendent Lithopolis schools, and Frank E., the 
youngest, is telegraph operator at Valley Crossing. 

Benjamin Winter, born 1825, married Elizabeth 
Miller, of Walnut township. Have two children, Wal- 
ter, a farrrfer near Baltimore, and Emma, the wife of 
Eugene Yontz, of New Salem, Ohio. 

Family of Abraham Winter, son of Jacob Winter, 
born 1787, lived and died in Pleasant township. Had 
three children. 

1. Hannah, married Valentine Cupp, who was 
killed at Chicamauga, Colonel ist O. V. C. 

2. Margaret, married Lafayette Pickering, Cap- 
tain 1st O. V. C. 

3. Daniel, died in Nebraska in 1899. 



Of Fau-ndd County, Ohio. 311 

Kate Strode, the wife of Isaac Winter, Charleston, 
Ills., was a niece of Geo. H. Strode. Her mother's 
second husband was Daniel Devore, of Lancaster. O. 

Family of Elijah M. Winter, born 1823, married in 
1845 to Sallie E. Meason, of Greenfield township, were 
the parents of seven children. 

1. John Meason married Frances Effie Gierhart. 
Is now postmaster at Carroll. 

2. Mary E., oldest daughter, now resides in Car- 
roll. Assists in post office work. 

3. Jennie A., married W. G. Waller, a farmer in 
Fayette County, O. Have three sons, Harry, Scott 
and Ralph. 

4. Alice F., married J. ::rcott Chenoweth, of Lon- 
don, Ohio, wno is now county treasurer. 

5. George W., died in 1881, aged 21. 

6. Charles C, married Esther E. Gorham. Now 
live at Continental, Ohio. Is agent for the N. Y., Chi. 
and St. L. R. R. Has been in R. R. work for twenty 
years. They have one son, Fred E., who is telegraph 
operator for the Pullman Car Co., Chicago. 

7. William B., married Mollie Turner, of Mason, 
Ills. Has been in the employ of the Chicago and East- 
ern Illinois R. R., also the Illinois Central, for ten 
years. Is now located at Pullman. They have two 
daughters. 

Mrs Winter died in 1873, and by a second marriage 
with Miss Katherine Berger in 1875 two children were 
born. Cora M., who is now the wife of Frank E. 
Wilson, superintendent of the Lithopolis schools, and 
Frank E., telegraph operator at Valley Crossing on 
the C. H. V. R. R. 

E. M. Winter died July 14, 1898, aged 75. 



312 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

SKETCH OF THE HOOKER FAMILY 

Thomas Hooker is the first of his name of whom 
the writer has any account. He Hved near Ricetown, 
Maryland, and ten miles from the city of Baltimore. 
Of his family we know nothing except his son Rich- 
ard and his descendants. Thomas Hooker died March 
24, 1744. 

His son Richard was born September 24, 1701. 
He married a woman named Martha. Of her family 
we know nothing. Richard Hooker was a farmer and 
tobacco planter, as we learn from his old account book 
and family record. The following quotation from said 
book gives some insight into his character : 

" Grace, wisdom and understanding is a fine thing." 
Signed : Richard. 

He died September, 1781, at half past five o'clock 
in the afternoon. His wife, Martha, died August 13, 
1 78 1, aged 69 years. They were the parents of thirteen 
children, viz.: Margaret, born the 15th of Novem- 
ber, 1732; Barny, born the 28th of November, 1734; 
Eurath. born December 4. 1736; Charity, born March 
II. 1739; Aquilla Hooker, born February 22, 1741 ; 
Mary, born January i, 1743 ; Richard Hooker, Jr., born 
on the 20th of October, 1745 ; Jacob Hooker, born 22d 
of June, 1748; Ruth, born 17th day of September, 
1751 ; Susan, born March 17, 1753; Samuel, born i6th 
of Novem])cr, 1757; Sarah, born May 28, 1762. 

Of this family of thirteen children we can learn 
nothing, except as to Richard, Samuel and Eurath, 
the sister, of whom more later on. There is a record 
of the birth of Kezia Hooker, January 6, 1761, in the 
handwriting of Richard, and the presumption is that 
she was one of his children, making the number thir- 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 313 

teen. From an entry in his family record it would 
appear that his daughter Margaret married Button 
Land, and that his daughter Ruth married Lathrop 
Cole. 

Samuel Hooker, Jr., with his brother Richard and 
his sister Eurath, came to Ohio and settled in Green- 
field township, Fairfield County, in 1810. He married 
Rachel Belt, daughter of Richard Belt, of Maryland. 
She was born November 11, 1767 Soon after his arri- 
val in this county Samuel purchased of Gen. James 
Wells 665 acres of land for the sum of $8.00 per acre. 
It was a valuable and beautiful section of fertile land, 
just west of Hooker Station. The deed for this land 
is dated October i, 18 10. 

Samuel Hooker, Sr., was a man of sterling quali- 
ties, a good citizen and one highly esteemed in his 
neighborhood. He and his wife raised a large family 
— one of the largest and most prominent of Greenfield 
township. After a long and useful life he died Octo- 
ber 3, 1842. His wife survived him, but passed to her 
long home February 7, 1853. Their children were 
Mary, born December 21, 1787; Jared, born May 20, 
1789; Milcha, born January 17, 1793; Samuel, born 
February 17, 1797; Richard, born February 17, 1799; 
Rachel, born August 28, 1801. 

Rachel married a Mr. Pickens, and subsequently 
moved to Wabash County, near Attica, Indiana. 
Milcha married William Stanbery, of Greenfield. 
Mary was the second wife of John Stanbery, and step- 
mother of of the present John Stanbery, of Greenfield. 
Jared must have died while yet a young man. Richard, 
son of Samuel, married Phoelie Tallman, a daughter 
of a prominent man named William Tallman, who then 



314 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

owned a good farm adjoining Jedediah Allen, near 
Royalton, Ohio. Phoebe was born August 4, 1805. 

Richard Hooker was always a prominent respected 
citizen of Greenfield, and the father of a large family 
of children. He died in 1885, at the age of 86 years. 
The children of Richard and Phoebe were : Jared, 
born in 1828, and who married Sallie Manson, of Lan- 
caster ; Samantha, born in 1830, and who married 
Thomas Trimble, son of the old pioneer. Col. William 
Trimble; Richard, born in 1831, and who married a 
daughter of David Foster, of Lancaster, Ohio ; Nancy, 
born in 1833, and who married George Little, of Lan- 
caster, Ohio; William Henry, born in 1836; Samuel 
Henry, born in 1839; George W., born in 1849. He 
married a daughter of William Rippey, of Lancaster, 
Ohio. Samuel Hooker, Jr., brother of Richard, was 
born February 17, 1797, and married Sarah Shull, 
whose parents lived at that time near what is now 
Buckeye Lake. He was a highly respected citizen of 
Greenfield, and reared a large family on the farm now 
owned by M. S. Vought, near Hooker Station. The 
children of these parents were : Samuel L., who mar- 
ried Miss Lydy, Daughter of S. Lydy, the proprietor 
of the " Swan Hotel," which stood on the site of the 
present Mithofif House; Samuel was a lieutenant in 
Company A, First Ohio Cavalry; John, who married 
Miss Lydia Alspaugh, daughter of John Alspaugh, 
who resided near the Rock Mill ; Martha, who married 
Hosea P). Tong, both of whom are dead ; Orpha, who 
married E. S. Carr, of Fayette County, Ohio; Sarah, 
who married Darius Wise, son of Rev. Wise, of Lan- 
caster ; Loretta, who married Captain James M. Som- 
mers, who was killed at the head of his company, 
Sixtv-first O. V. L, in one of the last battles of the 



Of rairficld County, Ohio. 315' 

civil war ; Mary, wlio married George W. Alfred, 
who was Probate Judge of Hocking County ; Louise, 
who married M. K. Wright, of Jeffersonville, Ohio ; 
and Rachel Elizabeth, who married John G. Reeves, 
a prominent attorney of Lancaster, and by marriage a 
double second cousin of Richard Hooker, Jr., of Tur- 
key Run. 

Richard Hooker, the bachelor of the family, who 
came to this comity, was a son of Richard and Martha 
Hooker, of near Ricetown, Maryland. He arrived in 
this county with his brother Samuel in the year 1810. 
He was born October 20, 1745, and died in the year 
1823, August the 5th. He was near 60 years of age 
when he landed here, was a bachelor and a man of 
means and ability. He soon became a large land owner 
and prominent in the county and in Lancaster, Ohio. 
In 1816 he was elected a member of the Board of Direc- 
tors of the First Lancaster Bank, and he was four times 
a representative and twice a senator in Ohio Legisla- 
ture. He gave farms to each of the children of his 
brother Samuel. The farm on which John Stanbery 
now lives is one of them. Reber Allen lives upon one 
of them. It is now yy years since his death, and there 
is no one living who knew him; hence our sketch is 
very brief. Too brief, we have no doubt, for a man so 
highly esteemed in his day and generation. When or 
where his sister Eurith died, we have not been able to 
ascertain. She did not marry. Richard was buried at 
the old Hooker graveyard, which holds the dust of 
many of the best pioneers of this county. 

Richard Hooker, always known in this county as 
Turkey Run Hooker, or Dick, was a near relative of 
Samuel, Sr., and Richard Hooker, Sr., of Greenfield 
township, Fairfield County, Ohio. He came to this 



316 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

county early in the century, at least as early as 1804 
or 1805. He was the first of the name to settle here. 
January 6, 1806, he was married to Nancy Tallman, 
by Thos. McCall, J. P. His wife was a daughter of 
William Tallman, who then lived upon a farm adjoin- 
ing that of Jedediah Allen, in Amanda township. Wil- 
liam Tallman was a good man, a good citizen, and pros- 
pered financially. In later years he moved to a farm 
adjoining that of his son-in-law, but just over the line 
in Pickaway County, where he owned about one sec- 
tion of land. William Tallman donated the land for 
the East Ringgold cemetery, and there he and his wife 
were buried. His father, Benjamin Tallman, and also 
his wife, were buried in the same cemetery. John, a 
brother of William, had a daughter named Mary, who 
married Fred Slough. They were the parents of Judge 
Tallman Slough, of the Common Pleas Court, Lancas- 
ter, Ohio. Another brother, Samuel, married a 
daughter of Gen. James Wells, the first owner of the 
Hooker farm, in Greenfield township. 

The sons of William Tallman were George, Hin- 
ton, James, Thomas and Benjamin. George settled 
first in Chillicothe, and later moved to near New Hol- 
land, Pickaway County, Ohio. He was the father of 
Mrs. Rev. B. N. Spahr, late of Columbus, Ohio. This 
George Tallman reared Wilhelmina Slough in his 
family. He promised her an equal share in his estate 
with his children. He died suddenly, without mak- 
ing a will, and his children, who possessed his noble 
traits of character, carried out his promise, giving the 
young girl an equal share of the estate. Hinton 
moved to Delaware, Ohio, where he was a prominent 
merchant and miller. George Spahr, a great-grandson 
of William Tallman, is a prominent citizen and busi- 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 317 

ness man of Columbus, Ohio. James Tallman married 
Mary Bell and moved to West Virginia and later to 
the west. 

In i8ti Richard Hooker purchased i6o acres of 
land of Abraham Moyer, southwest quarter of section 
20, on Turkey Run. He had previously entered sec- 
tion 1 9, and moved there, improved it, and built a 
grist mill. The mill race can yet be distinguished, 
but there is no trace of mill or the dam. The 
Cedar Hill and Circleville pike passes diagonally 
through section 19, and the mill was just north of the 
crossing of Turkey Run. 

Mr. Hooker gave one acre of ground for a grave- 
yard and school yard, also for the site of the present 
Baptist Church. Up to 1830 the services of this so- 
ciety were held in the Hooker school house. William 
Tallman's section was just over the line in Pickaway 
county, west of and adjoining the Hooker land. One 
half of the section is now owned by the Peters and 
Blues ; Claypool owned the section north of and ad- 
joining Hooker. On the land of this one family the 
sightseer could ride three miles — a tract unsurpassed 
in beauty and fertility. From the hill south of the 
Hooker residence is to be had the finest landscape view 
in this or any other county. Milton Peters now owns 
a large part of the Claypool farm, and his fine home 
is now one of the landmarks of the neighborhood. 

Mr. Hooker was a very prominent and influential 
man. Some time prior to 1831 he moved his family 
to Holliday's Cove, Brook County, Virginia, where they 
immediately took a prominent position in the society of 
the neighborhood, and of Steubenville and Wellsburgh. 
In the year 183 1, October 5, Mr. Hooker died. He 
made a will and gave to his son Richard 500 acres of 



318 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

section 19, range 19, of Fairfield County. This land 
Richard sold in less than a year to George Reigle, Sr. 
The Reigles and Kigers own the greater part of it. 
A section of land hardly surpassed hy any other in the 
county. The children of Richard and Nancy Hooker 
were Phoebe, Elizabeth, Mary, Nancy, Richard, Eman- 
uel, John Randolph, George and Tallman. Phoebe 
married Albert Clay pool, March 26, 1826, and they 
settled upon a large farm adjoining and north of that 
of Mr. Claypool's father-in-law. Two daughters of 
these parents are still living; the sons are dead. Rich- 
ard Hooker, Jr., married Susan Graybill, February 13, 
1828, Rev. Michael J. Steck officiating. Mary Hooker 
married Dr. Cowen, of Steubenville, Ohio. Elizabeth 
married a Mr. Shear, and he dying, she moved to Cal- 
ifornia. Nancy married Dr. Stanton, a brother or 
near relative of Edwin M. Stanton. The widow now 
lives in Washington, D. C. Of Mary, George and 
Tallman, we have no information. After Richard, Jr., 
sold his large farm he moved to Steubenville and 
became a merchant there. Later he married a second 
ivifc. ga\e up merchandise, and went to Texas, where 
he met witli financial reverses. He is said to have 
met with a violent dcatli in the south. Major Eman- 
uel T. Hooker, l)elieved to 1)e the son of Richard, re- 
turned to this county some time before the civil war. 
He enlisted in the Union army, in the First Ohio reg- 
iment, and was made a lieutenant of Company A. He 
was promoted to Captain, and served with his regiment 
until 1864, when he was regularly discharged. He 
was afterwards made major of one of the newly organ- 
ized Ohio regiments. January 16, 1865, he married 
Rebecca J. Hutchins, of Lancaster. Fie had three chil- 
dren Iw his first wife : Jessie, of Lancaster, who mar- 



Of Faii-Md County, Ohio. 819 

ried Henry Dysinger ; Fannie, of Fairfield County, who 
married Thomas Wilhamson ; George, a son, supposed 
to be living in Canton, Ohio. He had a daughter by 
his second wife. Major Hooker died in Lancaster a 
few years after the war and was buried in Elmwood 
cemetery. 

Mary L. Ely, daughter of Dr. Stanton, and grand- 
daughter of Richard Hooker, of Holliday's Cove, is the 
wife of Rev. J. H. Ely, Episcopalian, College Hill, 
Cincinnati, Ohio. 

Hollidav's Cove, and Brown's Island, Virginia, 
were famous places in pioneer times. In this neigh- 
borhood many people who have become distinguished 
were born and reared. The Brown's. Doddridges, 
Wells, Tallmans, Hammonds, Wrights, and other' dis- 
tinguished families had their habitation here. Col. 
Richard Brown, the original proprietor, was born in 
^Maryland, eight miles froiu Baltimore, in 1740. and 
died February, 181 1. Prior to 1800 he purchased 
1,150 acres of land, including Brown's island, of 350 
acres. It was this land the greater part of which 
Richard Hooker, of Turke}' Run, owned at tlie time of 
his death in 1831. 

We close this sketch of a very remarkable and hon- 
ored pioneer family, one tliat took part and were prom- 
inent in the social life of their respective townships, 
and the schools and churches, doing all that was re- 
quired of good citizens. All were farmers and owned 
and cultivated large farms of the best land in the 
countv. The families with whom they intermarried, 
the Tallmans and Stanberys, were large and highly 
respected, and all have left numerous descendants of 
unblemished reputation. 



320 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

SOME MARRIAGE RECORDS 

George Tallman married Jane Douglas, and they 
were the parents of Mrs. B. N. Spahr. 

Jonathan Hays married Elizabeth Hooker, in the 
year 1809, Richard Hooker, J. P., officiating. We 
can't state to what family Elizabeth belonged. 

James Tallman married Polly Bell, March 16, 1808, 
and moved to the Cove, Brook County, Virginia. 

Thomas Tallman married Eleanor Cole, August 14, 
1823, by Rev. Henry Matthews. 

Benjamin Tallman married Rebecca Hedges, Oc- 
tober 5, 1823, by Rev. Henry Matthews. 

William Tallman married Rachel Rush, of Amanda 
township, April 17, 1834. This was doubtless the 
father-in-law of Richard Hooker and his second wife. 

Benjamin Tallman married Sarah Glanville, De- 
cember 24, 1833. 

Hinton Tallman married Amanda M. Thompson, 
May 5, 1836, by Rev. Solomon Mineer. Hinton and 
his brother George were able business men, of high 
character, and were greatly esteemed wherever known. 

THE REBER FAMILY 

AND THE BRIGHT FAMILY — PIONEERS ALL 

John Bernhard Reber came from one of the German 
states to America in the year 1738 and settled in Berks 
County, Pennsylvania. His descendants have been 
numerous in Berks County for one hundred and ninety- 
three years. One of his descendants, Morris Reber, is 
at this time a resident of Reading, Berks County. John 
B. Reber was the ancestor of the family of this county 
(Fairfield). Peter and Valentine, brothers, belonged 
to the third or fourth generation from Bernhard. They 
left behind them eight brothers and sisters. When 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 321 

the Amish came to this county in 1835 they told John 
Reber that he had many relations in old Berks County. 

Valentine and Peter Reber, brothers, came to Fair- 
field County from Berks County, Pennsylvania. Peter 
came here a single man in 1801 and made his home 
in Lancaster. He married a daughter of Frederick 
Arnold, a farmer living north of town. They reared 
a large family. Peter was a hotel keeper and owned 
considerable property in town. John Reber, a dis- 
tinguished merchant of Lancaster, and George Reber, 
a lawyer, were his sons. David Bright, Sr., married 
a sister of the Rebers and came to this county in 1800 
and settled where Jacob Bright now lives in Green- 
field. Peter Reber and his family are more fully 
sketched in " Centennial Lancaster." 

Valentine Reber was born in Berks County, Penn- 
sylvania, and came with his young wife, who was 
Magdalena Van Reed, to Fairfield County in 1805. 
He had in 1803 visited the country and decided to 
make it his home. He purchased Section 10 of Amanda 
township, upon which he made his home during his 
life. He was an intelligent, industrious, enterprising 
and influential man. He reared a family of thirteen 
children, all of whom filled an honorable position in 
life, and left to their children the immortal heritage 
of a good name. Valentine Reber was a member of 
the Ohio Legislature in the year 1820. He left to his 
children each 160 acres of land, or its equivalent. He 
died in the year 1828, still in the prime of old age. His 
widow married for her second husband, William Stage, 
but the union was not a happy one. His old home- 
stead is now owned by the heirs of Henry Reber. 

Thomas Reber, the oldest son, was born in 1806, 

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322 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

and married Rachel, the daughter of Jedediah Allen, 
a famous man of the neighborhood. He lived for 
some years on the Allen farm, but later moved to Wy- 
andotte County and purchased of the Armstrongs or 
at government sale, a very fine farm near Upper San- 
dusky. Here he lived and prospered, accumulating a 
fine estate. A Sandusky banker told the writer that 
Reber's bank balance never fell below $25,000.00. His 
son Felix lived and died in Marion County, Ohio. 

Reber found on his farm, when he purchased it, 
a good brick home, one that had been used by Arm- 
strong, a half-breed, as a hotel. The writer, when a 
youth, spent one night in this famous hotel and partook 
of fruit grown in the old Indian orchard. This fine 
farm adjoins one equally as good, but not so large, 
of another Fairfield County man, Solomon Beery. Mr. 
Reber has been dead several years. 

John Reber, one of the sons of Valentine, was 
raised upon his father's farm, but early engaged in 
selling goods at Adelphi, Ohio, in which he was not 
successful. He gave up the business and commenced 
farming and cattle feeding in Walnut township, Pick- 
away County, Ohio. In this he was very successful 
and before he had reached three score and ten he was 
a very wealthy man for the period in which he lived. 
He was a bachelor, lived in good style, was hospitable, 
kind and generous, and before or at his death, divided 
an estate of $400,000.00 among his relatives. A nephew 
resides upon his old home farm. John Reber was 
highly esteemed. 

Dr. William Reber married Susan Huston and 
moved early to Brandon, Miss., where he spent his 
life. He reared two. daughters known to the writer, 
one of whom became the wife of W. L. Clement, late 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 323 

of Royalton, Ohio. Both, so far as we know, reside 
in the state of Mississippi. 

Charles Reber married BeHnda, the daughter of 
a farmer near Groveport, Ohio. They made their 
hon-'' Air. Reber died in 1849. Thorn- 

ton Rcber of this county is his son, and Mrs. Clarke 
Williamson, is a daughter. His son Henry lives near 
Circleville. A daughter married George Ashbrook, a 
son of Absolom Ashbrook. They reside in Pickaway 
Count}', Ohio. 

James Reber married Catharine Stage and he spent 
his life in Pickaway County. James Reber was a very 
amiable man. a good citizen, and a Christian gentle- 
man. His son \\'illiam resides upon the John Reber 
homestead. 

Joseph Reber married Sallie Dum and late in life 
moved to Jackson, INIissouri. He is the only one of 
the eight lirothers now living. 

Samuel Reber secured a good education, studied 
law in I>ancaster, and being admitted to the bar, re- 
moved to St. Louis, Missouri. There he became prom- 
inent and was elected Judge of the Common Pleas 
Court, judge Reber was an elegant gentleman and 
A^ery nuich esteemed. He married Margaret, the 
daughter of General William J. Reese of Lancaster, 
( )hio. He died while yet a young man and left quite 
a family of children. 

Henry Reber married Sarah x\lleu, daughter of 
Howard Allen. He became owner of his father's old 
home and Section 10. Plere he lived in good style, 
rearing a nice family of children. Henry was an ex- 
ceptionallv fine man, honorable in all of his dealings, 
a just and liberal man. He was a reader and was 
posted on all political matters. He was a man of 



324 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

affairs and calculated to lead in any walk of life. 
He died while there yet seemed to be many years of 
usefulness before him. Joseph Hedges, George Blue 
and Dr. Beery married his daughters. He had but 
one son, Henry Clay. 

A daughter of Valentine Reber, whose name we 
cannot give, married Jonathan Huston of Pickaway 
County, Ohio They reared a large family of children. 

Eliza married Lyman Allen, the son of Jedediah 
Allen. His sons were Reber, Flavins and Clinton. 
Reber lives near Hooker; Flavins in Jackson County, 
Missouri ; Clinton died in Missouri. One of the 
daughters married Emmitt Defenbaugh, Nora mar- 
ried Ed. Griner, Etta married William Griner. Mar- 
garet married Silas Wolfly of Delaware, now a 
wealthy tanner. Mary married John Allen, son of 
Howard. Rachel died young. 

Anna married Andrew Peters and they began life 
upon a farm near the old home. They both lived to 
a good old age and led an exemplary life. Success 
crowned their lives and they left their children a fine 
estate. Alice Peters married George Creed ; their chil- 
dren were Frank, Ann, Fannie and Emma. Mrs. 
Creed died suddenly October 7, 1896. Milton Peters, 
son of Andrew, lives upon a fine estate in Amanda 
township ; Frank and John in Pickaway County. 

Pauline Reber married William L. Clement, for 
many years a prominent merchant of Royalton, Ohio. 
Their children were John, Charles, William, George 
and Mary. His second wife was Ann Reber, daugh- 
ter of Dr. William Reber. They had two children. 

Mary Reber married Horace Huber, son of Philip 
Huber. They moved to Seneca County, Ohio, where 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 325 

Huber died. His wife is the only daughter of Valen- 
tine Reber now living. 

Their children are John and Eugene. We regret 
that this sketch is not more complete. It is next to 
impossible to procure full information of the pioneer 
families. What can the children of the honored dead 
be thinking about to neglect this matter? 

The Rebers, who were church members, were 
Methodists, prominent in the church and influential in 
the circle where they lived. But few, if any, pioneer 
families have a better record. The thirteen children, 
like the thirteen on an adjoinmg farm (Samuel 
Peters), grew to man's estate and lived long and useful 
lives. Jacob Dum, whose farm adjoined the Peters' 
home, settled there in 1833. He reared a family of 
thirteen children. Three such families on adjoining- 
farms is remarkable. 

But what is more remarkable, the thirty-nine chil- 
dren became men and women, and, without exception, 
filled honorable and useful positions in society. 

David Bright, Sr., one of the early pioneers of 
Greenfield township, married Sarah Reber, a sister of 
Valentine Reber. They came from Berks County, 
Pennsylvania, to Fairfield County, in the year 1800, 
and settled where Jacob Bright now lives. David 
Bright cleared up a farm and like many other pioneers 
ran a whiskey distillery near his home, which, like all 
of its kind, proved a great injury to the neighborhood. 
Mr. Bright reared two sons and four daughters. He 
died at the very early age of 42. 

David Bright, Jr., was born in 1812. He married 
Catharine Arnold for his first wife ; his second wife 
was Susan Gesselle, who still lives at the advanced 
age of 87 years. David Bright was a very substantial 



326 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

man, highly esteemed for his industry and integrity, 
and his skill and judgment as a farmer and business 
man. Greenfield honors no better citizen than David 
Bright, Jr. His son Charles married Catharine 
Carnes, one of an estimable family of Greenfield, 

Charles moved to near Findlay, Ohio, where he 
owns a large and fertile farm. He represented Han- 
cock County in the Ohio Legislature a few years since. 

Samuel married Rebecca Fisher of Greenfield, 
daughter of Samuel Fisher. He lives upon a good 
farm in Walnut township. He is a wide-awake far- 
mer and devoted to his business. Raised a Lutheran, 
on account of new location he became a very devoted 
Methodist. 

Emma married Adam Fisher, son of Daniel Fisher 
of Greenfield. They live in a splendid home in Wal- 
nut township near Pleasantville. 

James married Mary Rugh, daughter of Christian 
Rugh. Their fine mansion overlooks one of the finest 
300-acre farms in Walnut township. James is a good 
farmer, a money maker and a money saver. 

Julia married William Spangler, son of Jacob 
Spangler of Pleasant. 

Luther married Alma, daughter of Jacob Rugh 
Brandt. He owns the old Abrams homestead in Green- 
field township. He is a sturdy farmer and not afraid 
of hard work. His build and face remind us of the 
picture of his grand namesake, Martin Luther. 

John R. Bright married Sarah Rife, daughter of 
John Rife. He owns the old David Bright home- 
stead, a magnificent place, and is a good, industrious 
farmer, who raises good crops and whose word is 
always good. 



Of Fairfield Comity, Ohio. 327 

John Bright, son of David Bright, Sr., married 
Sarah Arnold, daughter of Jacob Arnold. John was 
a good farmer, good manager and a successful man. 
He reared a large family. 

Thomas married Rebecca Bush, daughter of Sam- 
uel Bush. He is a good farmer near No. 8. Mary 
married John Fisher, son of Daniel of Greenfield. 

Louise married Ben Haas. Haas is one of the 
Infirmary Directors of this county. 

Warren married a Holliday of Rushcreek. 

Levi married Louisa Miller, daughter of David 
Miller. He owns a fine farm near Millersport, Ohio. 

George has never yielded to the charms of fasci- 
nating maidens, and remains a bachelor. 

Jacob married Annie Hefifner of Pennsylvania. 
George and Jacob farm the original Bright farm. 

William H. Bright married Ella Myers, daughter 
of Alichael Myers. Nelson married Mahala Miesse, 
daughter of Solomon Miesse. 

Sarah Bright, daughter of David, Sr., married 
Thomas Fetters. They reared a very large family of 
sons and daughters, a family highly respected and an 
honor to Thomas Fetters, who was a good man. Mar- 
garet married Daniel Arnold; they were the parents 
of Monroe and Jerry. Diana married a Boyer and 
lives near Pleasantville, a widow. 

Susan married Abraham Graybill ; they moved 
in an early day to Findlay, where they reared a large 
family of children. 

John Bright, the brother of David Bright, Sr., 
spent the greater part of his life on his farm on Poplar 
creek, Liberty township, Fairfield County. He was 
married three times and reared quite a family of chil- 
dren. Two of his sons own the old home farm of over 



328 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

300 acres, and are very prominent men in their town- 
ship, and well known throughout the county. John, Jr., 
lives at his ease in Baltimore, and Enoch upon his 
farm. John Bright, Sr., wa^ one of the founders of 
the Evangelical Church in this county and upon his 
farm the first house of worship of that denomination 
was built. Moses Bright is a son of a deceased brother 
of Enoch. 

Four of the best known old-time citizens of Lib- 
erty, married daughters of John Bright — Alexander 
Miller, Daniel Langle, John Swartz and Henry Lan- 
gle. They all reared families and the connection is 
very large and widely extended. They were all good 
men and worthy of the high esteem in which they were 
held. John Bright was a man of integrity, whose 
word was good everywhere he was known. His de- 
scendants bear an honored name and worthilv main- 
tain the reputation of the old pioneer. 
THE REAM FAMILY 
Abraham Ream, the first person l)y that name to 
settle in Ohio, was born in Reamstown, Pa., in the 
year 1746. His wife's name was Rosannah, and there 
were born to them fourteen children — six sons and 
eight daughters. Of this number twelve were born 
in Pennsylvania. In 1798, Abraham, together with 
his family, removed to Fairfield County, Ohio. His 
was the sixth family of white settlers to settle in this 
county. Tt is stated that he journeyed from his Penn- 
sylvania home to Pittsburg in wagons ; from thence on 
a flat-boat down the Ohio river to the mouth of the 
Hockho'cking. He then wended his way up that 
stream in dugouts or canoes as far as the great falls 
(now one mile aI)ove Logan) ; thence by land up the 
stream, till he reached a point on its banks now known 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 329 

as the Ream's mill. In this beautiful and fertile part 
of the valley he entered four and one-fourth sections of 
land. These purchases were made at auction, against 
a Kentuckian, at Chillicothe. The price paid for some 
of the land first bought was nearly four dollars per 
acre ; for some of the rest, as low as one dollar and 
twenty-five cents per acre. 

In 1804 Abraham Ream built the mill which still 
retains his name. He and his sons were strong and 
fearless men. They were also great hunters, killing 
many bears, deer and other wild animals in the adja- 
cent hills. Abraham was also a man of some business 
qualifications, was industrious, accommodating, socia- 
ble and was a member of the Reformed Church. He 
died in 1824, and his wife in 1826. Their remains lie 
buried in the Ream graveyard. 

The following named were the sons and daughters 
of Abraham and Rosannah Ream: 

1. Elizabeth, tne oldest, was born April 4, 1776; 
was married to Peter Rudolph, Sr., who also came 
along with her father from Reamstown to Fairfield 
County. Their children were Joseph, William, Peter 
John, Abraham, Henry, Daniel, Samuel, Polly, Mar- 
garet and Delilah. Elizabeth died April 12, 1861. 

2. Sampson was born June 27, 1877 ; was married 
to Anna, sister of Judge Joseph Stukey. Their union 
was fruitful of thirteen children, as follows : Jonas 
A., who married Hannah E. Wilkinson ; to whom were 
born Thaddeus Hector, Cadorsus Plantagenet, Mois- 
ten Constantine, Victoria Grace Arena, Florence, 
Alice, Pocahontas and Mary. Mrs. Charles W. Tow- 
son is a daughter of the second wife of Capt. Jonas A. 
Ream, who was Miss Ely, the teacher of a select school 
in Lancaster for several years. Jonas A. Ream was 



330 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

captain of the Black Hawk company, Berne township 
boys. Samuel married Nancy Schisler ; their children 
were named Sarah, Joseph and Rachael, all of whom 
died young. Noah A. married Nancy King; he after- 
wards moved to California. Eli and Absolo'm were 
unmarried and both died in the Mexican war. Eliz- 
abeth was married to George Westenbarger. Barbara 
was wedded to John Fartig. Martha married Jacob 
Poff. Joseph Adam died single in California. Four 
c>thers died young. Sampson's feats of physical 
strength and skill would lead one to conclude that he 
was not mis-named. If he never slew a lion, yet his- 
exploits among wild animals only a little less ferocious 
than the king of beasts would at least lead one to- 
associate him with his Bible namesake. 

3. Rosannah was born December ii, 1778. She 
married John Panebaker. They were the parents of 
John, who died in his fourteenth year. William, who 
married Rachael Kelley ; their children were George, 
Elizabeth, Rosan and Rachel. Abraham married Eva 
Kremer ; there were born to them Daniel, Susan, Eva, 
Hannah, Catharine and Mary. Rachel died in her 
eighteenth year. Samuel was united in wedlock tO' 
Sarah Erick. Rosannah died December 2, 1839. 

4. William Ream was born Septemeber 16, 1780. 
He was both a farmer and tanner. Was married to 
Anna Hess ; their children were Adam and Lydia. 
Their children were Rosan, Rachel, Elizabeth, Wil- 
liam, George, Henry, Josiah, Lydia Jane. William 
died September 30, 1845. 

5. Julia Ann was born January 31, 1782. She 
was married to Isaac Shseffer. They were the parents 
of the following named children : Jacob, Isaac, John, 
Delilah, Judy and Sarah. 



Of Fairfield Coimtv, Ohio. 331 

6. Maria Barbara, born October 15, 1783, was 
married to Abraham Shseffer, and had born to them 
the following children : Joel, Samuel, Abraham, Jacob, 
Daniel, Judy and Nettie. 

7. Absalom was born December 11, 1785. His- 
children were Rosan, Abraham and Absalom. Was a 
farmer and went to Missouri, where he died. 

8. Rachel was born September 9, 1787; was 
married to Lewis Hershberger, but had no issue. 

9. Adam was born April 22, 1789, and died 
April II, 1805. 

10. Abraham was born September 21, 1791, and 
died in Michigan in the war of 181 2. 

11. Mary was born October 28, 1793. Mary 
was married to Judge Joseph Stukey and to them 
were born Noah, Abel, Aaron, a daughter who died 
young; Solomon, whose children are Rosa, Mary 
Ann, Elizabeth, Zwingli and Ella ; Joseph whose 
children are William, Clara and Emma ; Daniel, to 
whom were born Edward, Albert, William, Charles, 
Robert and Agnes. Rosa, who married the Rev. Rike ; 
two sons, one named Joseph, were born to them. The 
husband having died, Rosa then married Robert L. 
Sharp ; they were the parents of five children, viz : 
Anna, Lee, Agnes, William and Robert. Mary Ann. 

12. George Ream was born June 21, 1795; died 
June 8, 1833. George owned the farm north of the 
Ream's mill on which still stands the large brick 
house. Was captain of the Third company. First reg- 
iment. First brigade of the Seventh division of the Ohio 
militia. His marriage with Catharine Ludwick was 
fruitful of six sons and one daughter. Of these, 
Daniel, the eldest, was born August 2, 1821. Daniel 
owned the mill property, which was carried on most 



■332 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

successfully while he lived. He was the first sergeant 
■of the regiment of which his father was captain. Was 
a worthy member of the Lutheran Church, of good 
habits, led an exemplary Christian life and was held in 
high esteem by all who knew him. Daniel was mar- 
ried to Catherine Osenbaugh and to them were born 
children as follows : Julia, who died in her twelfth year ; 
George, who died in infancy ; Lewis Melanchthon, 
who married Mary Eliz. Plout; Daniel, still single; 
Clara, whose husband is Capt. Albert Getz; and Eliz- 
abeth, who also died young. Abraham, the second son 
of George Ream, was born December 17, 1823; was 
married to Sarah Bumgardner September 9, 1847. 
Their children are Solomon, who married Ida A. Lusk ; 
Mary Catherine, who married John S. Crook ; and 
Lewis, who wedded Caroline Seiffert (nee Johnson.) 
Abraham died October 11, 1854. It affords the writer, 
a son of Abraham, exquisite satisfaction to be able to 
speak on commendable terms and to testify to the 
excellent Christian character of his deceased father. 
Those who knew him best speak of him as being a 
typical representative of the best manhood of his day. 
He was an earnest Christian, a kind husband and a 
loving father. His religion was of a type that always 
made him joyful and happy ; was a member of the 
Reformed Church, of which he was at various times 
secretary, treasurer, deacon and elder. He also held 
the offices of township clerk and justice of the peace. 
When twenty-one years of age he was also elected first 
lieutenant O'f the Black Hawk Braves of the First brig- 
ade, Seventh division, Ohio militia. Abraham owned 
the farm located one-half mile north of the mill, which 
he bought of a Mr. Daniel Wilson. George Ream, Jr., 
\vas the third son of George Ream, Sr. The writer 



Of Fairiield County, Ohio. 333; 

has no record of the date of his birth, but his death 
took place September 17, 1842. Rosannah was borrb 
April 27, 1826 ; was married to Wm. Stallsmith. Their 
children are John F., who married Mary P. Welsh; 
William H., who married Emma Crumley; Catherine 
Elizabeth, who died young; Charles Edwin, who died 
in infancy; Emma C, who married Henry Zang- 
meister; Joseph L. wedded Minnie Courtright; Frank 
L. died yo'ung; Minnie and Callie S. are twins. The- 
first married J. Luther Faler, and the latter Frank 
Sallee. Jacob was born June 5, 1827; was married to 
Caroline Fulse, to whom were born the following 
named children : Rose, Kate and Louisa. Jacob died 
April 7, 1855. Joseph Ream was born June 25. 1830; 
married Susan Braucher, to whom were born Estelle, 
Winnie R., Calvin B. and Frank C, all of whom are- 
living; Ella. Daniel, George John and the twins, Jos- 
eph and Isaac, are dead. Joseph Ream is the only one 
of the seven children of George Ream still living. He 
resided a long time in Lincoln, Ills., where he served 
eight and one-half consecutive terms as county treasu- 
rer. His present postoffice address is Bronaugh, Ver- 
non County, Mo. Lewis was the seventh in number of 
the children of George Ream ; no accurate dates have 
been furnished of his birth and death. The widow 
of the elder George Ream was afterward married 
to Rev. John Wagenhals. Their children are Cather- 
ine, who was married to the Rev. George Harter ; Rev. 
Samuel, who married Eva Shaeffer for his first wife 
and Nellie Hamilton for second wife ; Mary, who was 
married to David Emmitt; David, who died wherb 
about five years old. Grandmother's death took place 
May 30, 1883. She was the mother of eleven children. 
Her life was beautiful, sweet, and even-tempered. She- 



334 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

was kind and amiable, and was loved by all with 
whom she came in contact. 

13. Catherine, daughter of old Abraham Ream, 
was born December 17, 179Q. Her marriage with 
Henry Annes Hensley was fruitful of five children, 
viz : Tobias, Adam, Jacob, Christian and Rosan. Cath- 
erine died November 9, 1849. 

14. Sarah was born December 30, 1801 ; was 
unmarried and died from the effects '^of a stroke of 
lightning. Her age was 18 years and six months. 

This completes the sketch of the Abraham Ream 
family down to the third generation. Another line, 
starting with Jacob, a half-brother of old Abraham's, 
is not given in this extract. 

It will be observed that the Ream family were 
quite numerous and prolific. Being widely intermar- 
ried, also, the relationship was a very large one. Jn 
the course of time, however, numbers of them removed 
to other and newer parts of the country, so that now 
the Reams may be met with in nearly all sections of 
the North and West. Some of these, however, emi- 
grated directly from Pennsylvania or from Europe, as 
the various spellings of the name would indicate. 
These are Ream, Reahm, Riehm and Reeme. 

In conclusion, let it be borne in mind by the present 
and after generations inheriting for their patrimony the 
Ream name, that whatever be the pride of honorable 
lineage, of heroic deeds, noble lives and acts well done, 
after all — 

"Honor and fame from no condition rise, 
Act well your part, for there all the honor lies." 



Of Fairfield Comity, Ohio. 335 

[The writer is indebted to Rev. Solomon Ream, 
of Wilton Junction, Iowa, for the foregoing sketch of 
an interesting family.] 

THE VAN METRE FAMILY 

Jan Gysbesten Van Metre was the founder of the 
Van Metre family in America. In the year 1663 he 
emigrated from Bommel, a city in South Holland, and 
settled in New Utrecht, on Long Island, near New 
York. He had one son, also named Jan Gysbesten 
Van Metre. This son married twice, and left several 
sons and daughters. The eldest son was named Jan 
Van Metre. He, with several members of the family, 
in 1709, left New Utrecht, and settled in Middletown, 
Monmouth County, New Jersey, which is just across 
the bay, opposite Long Island. Kryn Jan was a great 
Indian trader, and in his expeditions was the first 
white man to penetrate the valley of the South Branch 
of the Potomac. He was so impressed with the beauty 
and fertility of the country that he induced his sons, 
John and Isaac, to secure a grant of land, embracing 
40,000 acres, from Governor Gooch, of Virginia. This 
land was in the valley of the Opequan creek, and of 
the South Branch of the Potomac. The grant was 
made in 1730. In 1735 they conveyed 10,000 acres to 
Jos. Hite, a Cumberland Coimty, Pennsylvania, Ger- 
man, and ancestor of the venerable Jacob Hite, of Lan- 
caster, Ohio, who was the first settler on the land. 
The Van Metres did not remove to Virginia till about 
1740. Three brothers, John, Isaac and Jacob, were 
the first, but later on several others from Monmouth 
joined them. Jacob Van Metre, who settled east of 
Lancaster, was the grandson of John, one of the 
grantees under Gov. Gooch. Daniel Van Metre, who 
settled west of Lancaster, was descended from Isaac, 



336 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

the brother of John, and one of the co-grantees. They 
were a very prolific family, and their descendants are 
now settled across the continent from the Atlantic to 
the Pacific. They were very patriotic during the revo- 
lution. Ten Van Metres went to the war from Mon- 
mouth County. New Jersey and Virginia sent as many 
more. Colonel Garrett Van Metre was County Lieu- 
tenant for Hampshire County, and was very prominent 
till the end of the struggle. He was the grandson of 
Isaac, one of the grantees, and was the uncle of John 
I. Van Metre, of Ohio. 

The name of Van Metre has been a familiar and 
well known one for one hundred years in Fairfield 
County. The family has been by blood and by mar- 
riage one of the largest in the county. Jacob and 
Daniel Van Metre were natives of Virginia, but came 
to Fairfield County from Westmoreland County, Penn- 
sylvania. They were cousins and friends, but entered 
land ten miles apart in this county. They came to 
this county with families in 1799. Daniel settled on 
the edge of Muddy Run prairie, eight miles west of 
Lancaster, and became the owner of a large and pro- 
ductive farm. In 1805 he told Bishop Asbury that a 
tenant had raised 100 bushels of corn per acre. The 
old bishop spent his first night in 1803, west of Lan- 
caster, with Judge Van Metre, and enjoyed his hos- 
pitality on several occasions. In 1803 Daniel Van Me- 
tre was appointed an Associate Judge of the Court of 
Quarter Sessions. He met with reverses later in life 
and involved his cousin Jacob. He was bondsman for 
Judge Sherman in 181 7, and was then a heavy loser, 
for a time at least. It is generally understood that he 
died poor. He had one son who went to Cincinnati, 
studied and practiced law there. His sister Mary 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 337 

lived with him. Both are long since dead and their 
names are unknown to the present generation. 

Jacob Van Metre entered 1,280 acres of good land, 
a part of which has ever since been known as Van 
Metre's prairie. This was a body of land between the 
glass works and the stone quarry, and was often from 
one to three feet under water. Van Metre's land was 
one mile wide and two miles long. His cabin stood 
where Van Applegate's house now stands, and there 
he lived and died. In 1803 he was appointed by the 
Court one of the County Commissioners. He was an 
old-fashioned Virginia gentleman, who took life easy, 
and enjoyed the amusements of the neighborhood. He 
was fond of fine stock, was a fox hunter, and many of 
his descendants possessed the same traits. He bailed 
his cousin at one time and was compelled to sell 500 
acres of his land to pay the debt. The name of his 
wife was Catherine De Moss. She was born in 1752, 
and died in 1816, aged 64 years. She was a Dutch- 
French woman of good qualities. Jacob Van Metre 
was born in 1745 and lived to be 93 years of age. He 
died in 1838. A few trees of his old orchard, planted 
in 1802, are still standing and bear fruit. 

His daughter Josina married Rev. Hickman, of the 
Baptist Church, while they lived in Virginia. This 
family moved to Indiana, and became quite prominent 
there. Rebecca Hickman married Abel Williams and 
they lived for a time at Millersport, moving from there 
to Indiana. Her daughter married Judge Buckles, of 
Muncie, Indiana. 

Rebecca married James Pearse, in Virginia. They 
came to Fairfield County from Virginia in 1800, bring- 
ing with them on horseback their infant son, John Van 



338 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

'Metre Pearse. They lived in a cabin in the Van Me- 
tre settlement. John Van Metre Pearse grew up there 
and married Diana, the daughter of John Carpenter. 
They spent their lives in or near Lancaster, and reared 
a small family of children. Miss Bina, a woman of 
literary taste and culture, and Mrs. Swinhart are the 
surviving children. John Carpenter lived on what is 
now known as the Geisy farm, and there Mrs. Pearse 
was born. 

Van Pearse was a lover of fine stock. He bred, 
bought and sold horses, making that his chief busmess. 
He numbered among his many friends Col. Van 
Trump and Rev. Wm. Cox. They were warm per- 
sonal friends during life. Van Pearse was very de- 
cided in his likes and dislikes, but kind and generous. 
He was a captain in Col. Collins' cavalry regiment and 
served on the frontier in 1862 and '63, and to the close 
of the war. He found homes for his brother Frank's 
orphan children. They were well brought up and mar- 
ried well. They were very pretty girls. 

James Wilson Pearse married Eliza Murphey, 
daughter of Wm. Murphey. Their children were Wil- 
liam, of Newark, and Mrs. Matlack, of Lancaster. He 
was a farmer and horse dealer and a prominent and 
well known man. He was married three times. His 
second and third wives were named Ward, of Balti- 
more, Ohio. He reared a large family. One son 
married a daughter of Joshua Clarke. One a daugh- 
ter of Joseph C. Kinkead, both well known Lancaster 
women. 

His son, James Wilson, married a Miss Frances 
Bowser, another Lancaster woman, of Fort Wayne. 
Frank married a Miss Nettie Lane and lives in Fort 
Wayne. Lewis Pearse, son of James Pearse, married 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 339 

a Virginia girl, a relative of his mother, Catharine Van 
Metre. She was good looking and refined and was an 
excellent mother. One of her daughters, an elegant 
and handsome girl, married William Renick, one of the 
distinguished men of Pickaway County. The other 
married a Lewis Sweyer. 

Joseph Pearse married Delilah Walker and the fam- 
ily moved to the west. His daughter married Dr. 
Koontz, of Cedar Rapids. Frank settled in Kentucky, 
married there and dying left young children. They 
were brought to Ohio and found homes among their 
friends, two of them with Mrs. Geo. K. Wheat, and 
they married in Wheeling — Mrs. Isett and Mrs. Hen- 
dershott. Ar.other married John Richards, in Lancas- 
ter. She died early and left a handsome daughter, 
Miss Maud Richards. 

Andrew Pearse married a daughter of David Car- 
penter, of Bald Hill. They settled on a fine farm in 
Madison township, where John Landis now lives. 
Salem, John and Jerry were well known men, sons of 
theirs. 

Elsie Van Metre married Walter Applegate. They 
lived upon the old home place on Pleasant Run, and 
Jacob Van Metre spent his old age with them. Mrs. 
Applegate lived to be 94 years of age. Their best 
known son was Abraham Van Metre Applegate. Abe 
Applegate took the world easy. He loved fine horses, 
fine chickens, fine dogs, and a good fox hunt. He 
could ride to hounds with the best of them and clear the 
fences. He was a great reader, especially in the line 
of his taste, and was well informed. He was an inter- 
esting talker, and could write a good letter. The Rev. 
Wm. Cox admired him, corresponded with him and 
praised his letters. He could trace the pedigree of fine 



840 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

stock back to the Godolphin Arabian. He was one of 
the last representatives in this county of the Virginia 
gentlemen of sporting taste. He was fond of a good 
horse race, but with all a moral man, and he died a 
Christian. There was but one Abe Applegate. 

Josina Applegate married John Shook. She is 
said to have been a very intelligent woman. She was 
the grandmother of Dr. William Shook, of Canal 
Winchester, who, after the death of his mother, found 
a good friend and mother in Mrs. Samuel Beery. 

Sarah Van Metre married Samuel Crawford. They 
settled upon a farm near Wm. Murphey, in Walnut 
township, and raised a large family. Jacob Van Metre 
Crawford was their son. His first wife was an Apple- 
gate. His second wife was Sarah A. Hull. They 
lived east of Lancaster, on a part of the old farm of 
the Van Metres. W. H. Huber married a daughter; 
Mr. Pratt, of Columbus, married Alice ; Lulu married 
R. Shallenberger ; Eva is not married. 

Catherine Crawford married A. Morrison ; Marga- 
ret married Harrison Applegate ; Elsie married Rich- 
ard Buffington ; Priscilla married Lewis Fink ; Emeliza 
married Dr. T. A. Aldred, and they lived in Carroll. 
Two sons died young. Samuel Crawford and wife 
were buried at New Salem. 

Catharine Van Metre, the youngest daughter of Ja- 
cob, married for her first husband Thomas Armstrong. 
He was a native of North Ireland. Soon after his 
marriage he built a carding mill, run by water, on 
Pleasant Run, near the old Hull cabin, as it is now 
known. He died in a few years, leaving two children, 
Thomas J. and Eliza. The latter married David Ren- 
shaw. Thomas J. Armstrong married Jane Ann 
Rhodes, whose mother was an Arnold. They lived 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 341 

for some years in the neighborhood and then moved 
to Kansas, where they died a few years since. 

David Renshaw and wife reared a family of chil- 
dren. They were good people and highly respected. 
Dr. Renshaw lives in Sugar Grove; Ransom, the hor- 
ticulturist, at the old home place. Mrs. Daniel Ham- 
mack lived for many years with the old grandmother. 
Mrs. Weeks lives in Lancaster. David Renshaw was 
a charming fifer and his good music was enjoyed and 
is remembered by many admirers. 

Robert Armstrong had a brother John who lived 
near Thornville, Perry County. He died there, leav- 
ing a widow and a young daughter. A Mr. Buriff 
married the widow and they reared the daughter. She 
became the excellent wife of John M. Ashbrook and is 
still living in Geneva, Nebraska, aged 87. About the 
time of Robert Armstrong's death Robert S. Hull came 
into the neighborhood and took charge of the fulling 
mill. He was from New York. In time he married 
the Widow Armstrong. Their daughter, Sarah A. 
Hull, married Jacob Van Metre Crawford, her cousin. 
Catherine Hull married Samuel Beery. They lived 
several years near Bremen, and then built a stately 
home near Lancaster, where Mr. Beery soon after 
died. A few years after his death his widow married 
Samuel Black, a native of Ireland. Mr. Black is a very 
intelligent and worthy gentleman. Like most Scotch- 
Irish, they are both staunch Presbyterians. 

Robert L. Hull lived but a few years after his 
marriage. A brother of his, Benjamin Hull, came 
out to Ohio, courted and married the widow. In a 
few years he died and Mrs. Hull spent many years 
alone, or with her grandchildren, in the home where 
she had been happy with three different husbands. 



342 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

She was the youngest and the last to die of her fam- 
ily. They all sleep their last sleep on the Applegate 
hill. Mrs. Hull was much more than an ordinary 
woman, bright and intelligent, and a good talker. Ben- 
jamin Hull brought with him from New York a 
young son, F. C. Hull. He went to Chicago at an 
early day and was engaged in the real estate business 
in which he made a large fortune. He left $5,000,000 
to his niece, who was his bookkeeper, of this she gave 
$1,000,000 to the University of Chicago. She is one 
of the very wealthy women of Chicago. 

Colonel John A^an Metre, the son of Jacob, lived 
and died on the prairie. He was born in 1871 and 
died in 1845, aged 64 years. His house stood just west 
of Ashbaugh's spring. The old log building was still 
standing in i860. He served during the war of 1812 
in Captain Sanderson's company. He was a fine pen- 
man, the only one in the company, and was made first 
sergeant and kept the company's rolls. He was sur- 
rendered and paroled at Detroit. He came home and 
re-enlisted in the 27th U. S. Infantry. He was twice 
married. First to Anna Neely. His second wife was 
Margaret Young, a sister of the second wife of Thomas 
McNaghten. He was a colonel of the Ohio Militia, 
and filled other minor ofiices. His life wa^ spent 
upon his farm. He was a genial, witty and cheerful 
man and made many friends. After his death his 
family received a land warrant for 160 acres of land. 
His son Jacob located this warrant and lives upon the 
land in the state of Iowa. Colonel Van Metre was a 
plain man and lived in plain style, and was much 
esteemed by his fcllowmen. 

Rebecca, daughter of John Van Metre, married 
John A. Heberling, whose business was that of a 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 343 

butcher. One of his daughters married a Syfert, and 
moved to Columbus ; another married John Rada- 
baugh and they live in Columbus; another married 
William Selby and they moved to Peoria, Illinois; 
another married a Drinkle, who died, and the widow- 
then went to California where she marri-d again. 

Cynthia Ann married John Shrieves, a native of 
Rhode Island. He was a butcher by trade. They 
reared three or four sons, one of whom, Harry, was a 
fine looking, sprightly fellow. He went west, to Ne- 
vada, and married well, but died in a few years, leaving 
an only daughter. His widow is living and his daugh- 
ter, Mrs, Teresa Joise, in San Francisco, California. 
John Shrieves lives in Franklin County, Ohio. Mrs. 
Shrieves is still living in this city at the age of 87 years, 
and is a bright, clever old lady, of the old style. Mary 
married Alfred Snider; Catharine married James 
Craiglow — their descendants, the Harvey Denton 
family, live in Lancaster. Mrs. Denton has quite a 
family of children. Old Lancaster people all remember 
Harvey Denton. Elsie married a Mr. Alford of Illinois. 
Jacob, the son of John Van Metre, moved many years 
ago to Iowa. He reared a family of five children, who 
married well and are prosperous, useful citizens of 
the Hawkeye state. 

The daughters of James and Rebecca Pearse were 
Priscilla, Josina, Catharine and Rebecca. 

Priscilla married Ezra Van Metre, a brother of 
Mrs. Lewis Pearse, and they lived in Pickaway County. 

Josina married Joseph Clem. They moved to Mis- 
souri long ago. 

Rebecca married Daniel Winner. She was the 
mother of a handsome Wheeling lady, Mrs. George 
K. Wheat, as kind and generous as she is hand- 



344 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

some. A son of Daniel Winner has become distin- 
guished as a lion tamer, with Barnum's show. 

Catharine married Gabriel Carpenter, a son of old 
David, of Bald Hill, now the Prindle farm. Gabriel 
lived on his farm below town and reared a large and 
interesting family. His son, Seymour David, studied 
medicine in Lancaster about 1847, and after gradu- 
ating, located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. In 1850, or 
about that time, he prevailed upon his father to sell 
his farm here, pay some debts, and invest in a farm 
adjoining the town. Thither he moved his family and 
there he prospered and his children married well and 
succeeded in business. That farm has long since be- 
come a part of the city of Cedar Rapids. Gabriel 
Carpenter and wife lived to a good age, respected and 
admired by all who knew them. Dr. S. D. is a well 
preserved man of 70 years or more — with a history 
of good deeds and a useful life behind him. He reared 
a good family, now scattered and gone from him. He 
lives a quiet, unobtrusive life in Chicago, Illinois. 

Colonel John I. Van Metre, late of Pike County, 
Ohio, was a distinguished man and a relative of Jacob 
Van Metre. He owned and lived upon the finest farm 
of 2,500 acres in the Scioto Valley. He represented 
his district in Congress. A son of his studied law 
and made his home in Chillicothe. He was, for many 
years, a distinguished citizen of the ancient metropolis. 

Colonel John I. Van Metre was a typical Virginia 
gentleman of the old school. He was a reader and well 
informed. The writer once met him at his stately 
home and was charmed with his fine manners and gen- 
tlemanly bearing. 

Ella, daughter of Colonel John M. Connell, mar- 
ried a Van Metre. Thev live near Salt Lake, Utah. 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 345 

John E. Van Metre and Dr. Van Metre, of Picka- 
Avay County, were brothers and relatives of the Fair- 
field family. John E. married his cousin, a sister of 
Mrs. Lewis Pearse. Dr. Van Metre married Nancy, 
daughter of William Murphey, and a sister of Mrs. 
James W. Pearse. The father of Ella Connell's hu^ 
band married a Miss Beall of Wooster, Ohio, a sister 
of Mrs. Rev. William Cox, well known here. 

THE COURTRIGHT FAMILY 

Among the very early pioneers who settled in Fair- 
field County, were two brothers, Abraham V. Court- 
right and John Courtright. They came from Luzerne 
County, Pennsylvania, in the year 1801. 

They were intelligent, brainy, hardy, upright men, 
and they left the impress of a good character and 
good life upon the community in which they lived. 
For nearly one hundred years the Courtrights have 
been a numerous people in Fairfield County, and 
among the foremost men of their township. 

Abraham V. Courtright married Elizabeth Mc- 
Farland. a sister of Walter McFarland. They reared 
a large family of children, who in time reared other 
large families, and they all proved themselves worthy 
of their hardy pioneer ancestors, of Bloom township. 
Their children were Abraham V., William, O. P. 
Courtright, John, Zephaniah, Cyrus and Effie. 

Abraham V. was born in 1810, and for his wife 
married Susan Fellers. They lived a long and useful 
life in Greenfield township. Their old mill west of 
the Summit church is still one of the old land marks 
of the neighborhood. Winfield Scott Courtright, a 
prominent citizen of Columbus, is their son. 



346 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

William C. was born in 1813, and for his wife 
married Catharine Drake. 

O. P. Courtright was born in 181 5, and married 
Sarah Harman of Ross County, a relative of Dr. G. 
A. Harman of Lancaster, Ohio. 

John Courtright was born in 181 7, and for his wife 
married Anna Morehart of Bloom township. 

Zephaniah was born in 1819, and for his wife 
married Sarah Williamson, a daughter of George Wil- 
liamson. Zephaniah was a very intelligent man and 
an enterprising and prosperous citizen. No man was 
more highly esteemed in Bloom township or in Fair- 
field County, among those who knew him. He died 
at a good old age, leaving a handsome estate, and, 
what is far better, a good name. We write thus of 
him because we knew him best and esteemed him 
highly. Their family consisted of two sons, Silas 
and Abraham, and four daughters. Mary resides on 
the home place with her brother Abraham, a leading 
farmer and stock man of Bloom. H. J- Kneisley mar- 
ried one of the daughters. They own a part of the 
old home place, but reside in Carroll, where Kneisley 
is a grain merchant, and a live, wide-awake individual. 
Reber Allen, a great-grandson of the old Vermont pio- 
neer, Dr. Silas Allen, married one of the daughters ; 
they reside on a nicely improved farm on the Colum- 
bus pike near Hooker. Another daughter married 
Andrew Jackson A'lusser, late Treasurer of Fairfield 
County ; they reside in the city of Lancaster. 

Cyrus Courtright was born in 1821, and for his 
wife married Catharine Switzer, a step-daughter of 
Walter McFarland, and a sister of Mrs. Rev. Joseph 
Roof and of Mrs. Robert Wilson. One of their daugh- 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 347 

ters married Levi Hite, a grandson of Daniel Keller. 
He has a son who is an attorney in Columbus, Ohio. 

Effie Courtright was born in 1827; she married 
John W. Wilson of Greenfield township. One of their 
daughters married Thomas Carlisle, son of B. W. 
Carlisle. Another married Henry Lehman of Des 
Moines, Iowa. 

We regret that we have not the data to say more 
of the other families mentioned. Each couple reared 
families of children more or less numerous. 

John Courtright, Sr., one of the two pioneer 
brothers, married Elizabeth Grubb. Their children 
Avere Abraham, John Jacob, Jesse D., and Sallie, wife 
of George W. Custer. 

Abraham married Catharine Snider. 

John married a Miss Crist. 

Jacob also married a Crist. 

Jesse D. married a Miss Stout of Clearcreek town- 
ship. Dr. George S. Courtright of Lithopolis, where 
he is a prominent citizen, was a son of Jesse, as is 
Juflge Courtright of Circleville, and Dr. Alvah Court- 
right. 

Most of these people lived to old age and reared 
large families, but we cannot go farther into details 
for want of information. 

Jacob and John wc knew well and they were men of 
character and highly esteemed. 

Of the old stock all are now dead, except the ven- 
erable John Courtright of Lithopolis and Cyrus of 
Pickawa}' Count}-. John's health is fair and his mind 
bright, and he seems to enjoy life, and would no doubt 
be willing to live it over again. 

A sister of Abraham V. Courtright, Sr., married 
a Wheeler. Their son Samuel is an attorney of San- 



348 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

dusky, Ohio. He learned the harness trade with 
Nick Little and was one of the live boys of the town 
in 1848 and 1849. He studied law and located in 
Sandusky years ago. He was one of the company un- 
der Captain Ira Tripp, that broke up the Negro cele- 
bration in August, 1848. At that time many people 
winked at and applauded their conduct. Now such 
conduct would meet with universal condemnation. 

Judge Samuel W. Courtright of Circleville is a 
descendant, as we learn, of John Courtright, Sr., a 
son of Jesse D. Courtright, and brother of Dr. Court- 
right. He is a very prominent man of his adopted 
home and a bright Freemason. He was born in Bloom 
township and owns a good farm there. 

John E. Courtright and Ezra were, a few years 
since, quite prominent men in Bloom. They were of 
the third generation. Like most of their family who 
passed middle life, they have gone to the land of eter- 
nal rest. 

Of this once prominent family but few represen- 
tative men remain. 

THE WILLIAMSON FAMILY 

Theodore Williamson, the pioneer and the ances- 
tor of the large family in this county, was born in 
Berkeley County, Virginia, in 1774. He came to Ohio 
and settled in this county near Royalton in the year 
1807. He died April 15, 1870, aged 96 years. His 
wife was Miss Rhoda Prater, of Virginia. She died 
September, 1857, aged 79 years. They were the par- 
ents of a large family of sons and daughters, all of 
whom were farmers and reputable citizens. The old- 
est son, George W., married Elizabeth Kemp. They 
lived on the farm now owned bv Albert Williamson, 



Of Fairiield County, Ohio. 349' 

near the upper falls of the Hockhocking. He died 
December lo, 1879. His wife died January 19, 1889. 

Their oldest son, Theodore Williamson, married a 
sister of Henry Alspach. He lived for years on a 
fine farm near Hooker, and was known as the neatest 
and best farmer of that vicinity. He sold his farm 
and moved to Omaha, to which city his sons, Sey- 
mour and Charles, had preceded him. He now lives, 
near Columbus, Ohio. Seymour married a Bookwal- 
ter; Charles married Miss Annie Wiseman of Lan- 
caster, Ohio. Henry, son of George, married a Miss 
Tipton. He owns a good farm in Bloom township^ 
but makes his home in Lancaster. He was a Union 
soldier, and left his right arm in Southern soil. 

Albert, son of George, married Rose Dysinger. 
He owns the home farm, but rents and conducts an 
implement store, or warehouse, in Lancaster. Sarah 
married Zepheniah Courtright, ; Zona married Wil- 
liam Cofi'man ; Lorinda married John E. Courtright ; 
Elizabeth married Isaac Bollenbaugh, and Amanda 
married John Coffman. 

A good family of children survive Zepheniah 
Courtright and wife. 

Abraham Courtright and his sister Mary reside 
upon the home place of 300 acres. One of his daugh- 
ters married H. J. Knisely, a farmer and grain dealer 
of Carroll, Ohio. Another daughter married Reber 
Allen, and another daughter married Andrew 
J. Musser, late treasurer of this county. Silas, a son 
of Zepheniah Courtright, lives near the upper falls of 
Hockhocking. 

Jacob P. Williamson, son of Theodore, was born 
in 1804. He died March 16, 1876, aged 72 years. He 
married Elizabeth Odell and lived upon the home 



350 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

place of the pioneer, Theodore. William, his son, 
married Flora Dysinger and moved to Indiana. 

Silas J. Williamson, son of Jacob, was born De- 
cember 14, 1 83 1. He married Susanah Kiger. He 
lives on the old pioneer farm. John, son of Jacob, 
married Hannah Cruit. George, son of Jacob, mar- 
ried Anna Kiger and moved to Wells county, Indiana. 

Alonzo, son of Jacob P., married Dora, daughter 
of Daniel Kellerman, and moved to BlufTton, Indiana, 
where he is a very prominent banker and citizen. 

Rhoda, daughter of Jacob, married John Madden ; 
they live on Muddy Prairie, near Amanda. Cholista 
married James Robinson and died some years since. 
Etta married David Cole, and they moved to Wells 
county, Indiana. Catharine married George Otis. 
Emma married Robert Cruit, one of the prominent 
and successful farmers of Hocking township. 

Isaac Newton, son of Theodore, the pioneer, mar- 
ried Elizabeth Peters, daughter of Samuel Peters. 
She is living at a very old age, but is well and hearty, 
bright and happy, in the home so long endeared to 
her by toil and happiness. Mr. Williamson died 
December 16, 1890, aged 82 years. Mr. Williamson 
was a good farmer and a lover of and a judge of good 
fruit. 

His son Theodore married a daughter of Henry 
Alspach. Rufus was a Union soldier and was killed 
in battle. Joseph married a Miss Harrison. 

Tunis married Ella Alspach, daughter of Joseph 
Alspach. Samuel died young and did not marry. 
Mary married G. Stanbery; Althea married Frank 
Philbrick ; Anna married Clay Johnson ; Emma never 
married. John Williamson, son of Theodore, married 
a Miss Ingman. He died recently. His home was on 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 351 

a farm near Royalton. His son, Clark Williamson, 
married a daughter of Charles Reber and a grand 
daughter of Valentine Reber. His daughter married 
Dr. Silbaugh of Lancaster, Ohio. Milton William- 
son married a Miss GrofT and they live on the home 
place of John Williamson. Henrietta married George 
Ward, Sophia and Maria are single women. 

Silas, the son of Theodore, married Lucinda 
Shawan, a sister or niece of R. W. Shawan, the great 
merchant of Tiffin, Ohio. Shawan, in early life, 
worked upon a farm in Amanada township, and fed 
cattle in the winter for a small sum of money per 
month. He went to Tiffin at an early day, prospered 
and was rated a millionaire. 

We know but little of the family of Silas William- 
son. His son Thomas married a Miss Hooker. Wil- 
liam Williamson, a son of Theodore, married Catha- 
rine Griffith and moved to Missouri, where they died. 
Levi Williamson, son of Theodore, married a daugh- 
ter of James Grantham, and moved to Iowa, where 
they died. Eliza, daughter of Theodore Williamson, 
married George W. Halderman, both long since dead. 
Ara married Henry Huber, who once lived where 
George Creed now lives. They moved to Shelby 
County, Illinois. Zero married Enos Prater and they 
moved to Ross county, Ohio. Both now dead. 

This completes the record of the children and 
grandchildren of the old pioneer so far as we have 
been able to trace the family. 

On the farm near the house of Silas J. Williamson, 
in sight of the Royalton road leading from Lancas- 
ter, there are two very remarkable elm trees. They 
were found there by the pioneer, Theodore William- 
son, and preserved. Eighty-two years ago they were 



352 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

15 inches in diameter. One of them measures 2| feet 
from the ground, 20 feet in circumference. The other 
23 feet. Their tops cover a space of ground 90 feet 
in diameter. Apple trees planted 75 years ago still 
bear fruit. 

LARIMER-CHANEY 

The Larimer family were citizens of Rushcreek 
township as early as 1802. Robert Larimer was the 
first resident to die and Phoebe Larimer the first to 
marry. Her husband was William Martin, the son of 
a pioneer. Ebenezer Larimer was a prominent man 
among the first settlers; Isaac, Sr., James, Joseph and 
John Larimer were O'ther members of the family. 
Isaac and James were in Capt. Sanderson's company 
in 1812, ana with their comrades were surrendered by 
General Hull at Detroit. Joseph and John were in the 
second company raised by Capt. Sanderson. 

Wright Larimer and Isaac Larimer were well 
known, popular, useful and honorable men of a late 
period. Fifty years ago they were the prominent 
Democrats of the township and received favors at the 
hands of their party. Isaac Larimer was a member of 
the Ohio General Assembly in the years 1848 and 1849, 
representing Fairfield, Hocking and Perry Counties. 
The Whig and Democratic parties were so nearly a tie 
that two Freesoilers held the balance of power and 
dictated legislation. They knew their power and ruled 
with an iron hand. They proposed to the Whigs to 
repeal the Black Laws and elect Salmon P. Chase 
United States Senator and that they should have the 
Supreme Judge. The Whigs declined the offer. It 
was made to the Democrats and accepted. Daniel 
Keller, Isaac Larimer and H. C. Whitman, Senator, 
voted with the Freesoilers. 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 353 

All that the Democrats got out of this combina- 
tion was a Judge of the Supreme Court and the satis- 
faction of defeating the Whigs and Thomas Ewing for 
Senator. 

They builded better than they thought ; they drove 
the entering wedge that finally disrupted parties. The 
election of Chase gave new life and strength to the 
Freesoil sentiment throughout the north, and it soon 
became apparent that the watchword of parties would 
be slavery or anti-slavery. The Whig party went down 
before it and the result was the formation of the 
Republican party. Chase led in this preliminary skir- 
mish, and from that day to the present, fifty years, 
Ohio statesmen have been influential leaders in public 
affairs. 

The vote of Keller, Larimer and Whitman was 
denounced in unmeasured terms by the Democrats 
of this county, both in public and in private ; indigna- 
tion meetings were held in some townships. 

Larimer became disgusted with the treatment he 
received and ever after followed the fortunes of Sen- 
ator Chase. He became a leading and active Repub- 
lican and voted for Chase for Governor of Ohio, and 
for General Fremont and Abraham Lincoln for Presi- 
dent. 

Chase had him appointed a mail agent from Zanes- 
ville to Morrow in 1861, but the work proved too hard 
for him and his eyes gave out. He resigned and re- 
turned to his farm. In a year or two he sold out and 
moved to Darke County, Ohio, where he died a few 
years since. He left two daughters in this county who 
are highly esteemed — one, Rebecca, is the wife of 
William Rowles, the other, Elizabeth, is the wife of 
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354 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

a relative of William, John S. Rowles. William 
Rowles is the present owner of the old homestead of 
John M. Ashbrook, a beautiful farm of good land. Mr. 
and Mrs. Rowles have about reached three score and 
ten years. They are the happy parents of ten children. 

JUDGE CHANEY 

Judge Chaney was one of the brainy and enter- 
prising pioneers of Fairfield County. He was always 
a leader in his township and for his opportunities one 
of the foremost men of Fairfield County. He was 
blessed with good common sense, good habits, good 
morals and was in all respects an exemplary citizen. 
Ife was born in Washington County, Maryland, Jan- 
uary 12, 1790. When four years of age his father 
moved to Bedford County, Pa. There he died when 
his son John was fourteen years of age. /Soon after 
his father's death, his only brother died, leaving the 
mother and three sisters in very poor circumstances. 
His father owned a good farm but lost it by endorsing 
for friends. From the age of fourteen to twenty he 
supported his mother and sisters. In the fall of 1810 
he bade adieu to his family and made his way to the 
West, and landed in Fairfield County, near the site of 
Waterloo. He did not remain, but went over to Pick- 
awav County, where he remained two years and then 
returned to his Pennsylvania home. In the year 181 5 
he returned to this county and settled in Bloom town- 
ship. In the fall of 1816 he married Mary Ann Lafere 
and went to housekeeping in a log cabin fourteen feet 
square. He said that he was poor, but did not doubt 
the future, as he intended to live a correct life. He 
made rails for fifty cents per hundred and cut cord 
wood for twenty-five cents per cord. 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 355 

Notwithstanding his poverty, having learned of 
the serious illness of his mother, he went to Bedford, 
Pa., and remained with her to the end and buried her 
by the side of his father. "Honor thy father and 
mother that thy days may be long in the land which 
the Lord thy God giveth thee." He returned to his 
home and began anew the struggle of life in the new 
country with undaunted courage. The country rapidly 
improved and every year saw a change for the better. 
He met with many discouragements and sometimes 
longed for the old home, but poverty kept him in Ohio. 
He was too poor to move. 

A few of his early neighbors were Henry Dove, 
Chancy Ricketts, Abraham Pickering, Jacob Picker- 
ing, Mordecai Fishbaugh, Isaac Meason, the Court- 
rights, all were living near him, previovts to the year 
1812. He was soon able to purchase a mill, saw-mill 
and a distillery and the business brought him in contact 
with people over a wide extent of country. This prop- 
erty was on Spring Run, about one and one-half miles 
west of Carroll. 

He was elected a justice of the peace for 1821, 
1824 and 1827, serving nine vears. 

He was trustee of Bloom township for a period 
of twenty-three years. He was also a major, colonel 
and paymaster in the old style Ohio militia. 

In the years 1828, 1829 and 1830 he was elected 
to the lower house of the Ohio legislature where he 
served the public with distinction and honor. In 183 1 
the legislature elected him an associate judge of Fair- 
field Common Pleas Court. 

In 1832 he was nominated as candidate for Con- 
gress. Judge Irvin was his competitor. The prelimin- 
ary work was done at the general muster, three-fourths 



356 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

of the militia voting for him. This ended the contest^ 
Irvin retired and Chaney was elected in October. The 
district was Fairfield, Perry, Hocking and Morgan. 
He was re-elected in 1834, and again in 1836. Having 
served three terms in Congress he returned to his farm 
and the stern duties of life. In 1842 he was again 
elected a member of the legislature and in 1844 he was 
elected State senator from the Fairfield district. In 
the year 1855 he was again returned to the lower house 
of the legislature and served one term. In 1832 he was 
a presidential elector and voted for Andrew Jackson. 

In 1 85 1 he was elected a member of the Consti- 
tutional Convention that formed our present constitu- 
tion. His associate was Col. Wm. Medill. His pub- 
lic career closed as a legislator in 1855. A wonderful 
career, when we consider his situation and prospects 
in 1 816. He lived a correct live, improved his oppor- 
tunities and made friends and success followed — and 
the fortune that looked so dark and gloomy became 
bright and brilliant. There is no instance in this 
county of so many distinguished honors being con- 
ferred upon a plain, unassuming farmer. 

It is said of John Chaney that he never solicited 
office, they came unsought. 

When ninety years of age, he, with the writer, 
made his last call upon some old friends. He said to 
John T. Brasee that he had all his life been opposed to 
slavery. That he learned to hate the institution from 
what his mother told him of it. It was an interesting 
interview to witness, but sad to see the old men part, 
never to meet again. Brasee soon bid adieu to earth 
and Chaney died in two or three years at Canal Win- 
chester. Both began life as penniless orphans, both 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 357 

achieved distinction and honor and both accumulated 
wealth. Both were honest, fearless, just men. 

Judge Chaney reared three sons who have been 
quite prominent men in this and Franklin County. 
James was all his life a farmer of Bloom township. 
Dr. Chaney, of Canal Winchester, has represented 
Franklin in the Ohio legislature. Oliver P., in his 
young days was a clerk for Reber & Kutz, in Lancas- 
ter. He made the trip to Europe with his friend, 
John Reber. Since that time he has resided in Canal 
Winchester, where he dealt in grain and bred fine 
horses. He owns the old home farm in Bloom town- 
ship. He is an intelligent man and a worthy son of 
the old Judge. 

REED, DENNISON AND SLAUGHTER 

The Reed and Dennison families were among the 
-earlv pioneers of Greenfield township, Fairfield Coun- 
ty, Ohio. 

There were three of the Reed brothers, viz., James, 
William and Huston. The land first owned by the 
Reed? lies just west of the farm of James W. Wilson. 
James, wliose children resided on the farm until quite 
recently married Nancy Hood, a girl of the neighbor- 
hood, but whose family is now unknown in the 
township. James and William Reed were among the 
verv early settlers of the township. They built and 
operated one of the first salmi Us on the Hockhocking 
River at a very early day. 

Huston Reed came out from Pennsylvania with 
an only daughter and only child, and made his home 
with his brother William. The girl grew to woman- 
liood and liecame the wife of John M. Schoch, a Ger- 
man, who at that time worked at the Barrett Woolen 
Mill, near the upper falls of the Hockhocking River. 



358 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

After marriage he moved to near Canal Winchester, 
where he again worked in a woolen mill. He soon ex- 
changed this business for that of a tavern keeper in 
Canal Winchester, and was long well known to Lan- 
caster people as the landlord of the stage station. His 
son, John M. Schoch, still keeps open the old-time 
tavern. 

The family of James Reed has been well known in 
their township for one hundred years, retaining the 
old home farm until within a year or two. 

William Reed married a Miss Black in Pennsyl- 
vania before emigrating to Ohio. When war was de- 
clared in 1812, he enlisted in the company of Captain 
Sanderson and served until his death, which occurred 
in camp at Upper Sandusky, Ohio. He died of the 
measles and necessary exposure incident to a camp 
and army life. 

His wife, finding herself a widow with two chil- 
dren, determined to return to Pennsylvania. Twenty- 
five acres of land was set ofif as her share of the estate 
of the Reeds, and her brother-in-law, James Reed, 
assisted her to return to her old home. He secured the 
services of Hiram Owens to accompany her, and the 
two made the long journey on horseback, each carry- 
ing a stout boy before them — Rufus Reed and John 
B. Reed. In future years Rufus was a prominent 
merchant of Tiffin, Ohio, and John B. a prominent 
mechanic of Lancaster, and a brother-in-law of H. H. 
Hunter and George H. Smith, and father of the late 
Rufus Reed. 

Richard Dennison was an Englishman, and in his 
young days a British soldier, a member of the King's 
Guard. He understood the tactics, and often gave his 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 359 

young neighbors lessons. He was a shoemaker by 
trade. 

In what year he came to the United States is not 
known ; when he did come he settled in Pennsylvania. 
There he met, wooed and won the widow of William 
Reed. After their marriage they moved to Ohio and 
settled on the widow's share of the Reed farm, now 
owned by Mr. Markwood. The year of their commg 
is not known, but it was prior to 1818, in which year 
their son James was born. A second son. Nelson, 
studied and practiced law in Lancaster, but he died 
while yet a young man. Nelson married Amanda 
Manson and moved to Iowa. A daughter married a 
Tarlton merchant. This merchant was a Mr. Julian, 
late of Circleville. This couple in their old age moved 
to Tarlton, where they died and where they were 
buried. 

James Dennison grew up in Greenfield, and received 
such education as the county afforded. At the proper 
age he went to Lancaster and was soon apprenticed to 
the business of a tanner, with William V. Thorne and 
James M. Pratt, who conducted a large tannery at the 
foot of Broad street. 

Having completed his apprenticeship, he went to 
Tiffin, Ohio, and became a partner of his half-brother, 
Rufus Reed. After a few years they failed in business 
and he returned to Fairfield County. He soon formed 
a partnership with a young tanner in Tarlton, Allen 
Hamilton, brother of Col. William Hamilton. Their 
business was a success and was continued for some 
years. William Lynch worked for them in 1852, and 
Captain Roby in 1855. Both at the time were single 
men, but not long so to remain. They courted sisters, 
Maria and Ann Slaughter, daughters of Judge Robert 



360 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

F. Slaughter. The young ladies at that time lived on 
the hill just this side of Clarksburg. The gallants 
were accustomed to make the trip from Tarlton on 
horseback and remain during their convenience. There 
were no buggies and moonlight rides in those days. 

Dennison married Maria and took his bride to Tarl- 
ton. Later, Hamilton married Miss Ann and took her 
to Tarlton. Some years later Hamilton moved to 
Columbus where he made investments that made his 
widow a fortune. 

James Dennison moved to Kansas City in 1859, 
when it was a mere river landing. He followed his 
business for a year or two, when he became ^ leather 
merchant, which business he followed successfully, 
making a small fortune. It is said that his wife traded 
a good cow for an acre of land. That acre is now in 
the heart of the city. 

Dennison lived in Kansas City during the civil war, 
and being a northern man of pronounced principles, he 
was often in danger of his life, the same having been 
often threatened. About the year 1884 hr closed up 
his business, disposed of property and moved to Los 
Angeles, California, just in time to make investments 
that made him another fortune. 

Dennison and wife lived a delightful life for fifteen 
years in the land of sunshine and flowers. He died 
October 7, 1899, leaving his wife and three children. 
Mr. Dennison had a long, varied and useful career. 
He was a prominent and honored citizen in Lancaster, 
Tiffin, Tarlton, Kansas City and Los Angeles. He 
was an intelligent, honorable, courteous gentleman, 
highly esteemed and respected where he died. He 
was one of the many distinguished men, born in Fair- 
field County, who made fame and fortune in the west, 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 361 

and who to the day of his death remembered, with 
pleasure and affection, the fair fields over which he 
roamed in early life. His widow was recently killed 
in Kansas City by a street accident. 

THE BRANDT FAMILY OF THE EARLY DAYS 

A NUMEROUS AND HONORABLE ONE 

" The brief duration of our families, as a hereditary 
household, renders it next to a certainty that the great- 
grandchildren will not know their father's grandfa- 
ther." Thus wrote Nathaniel Hawthorne. But since 
his time, in many parts of our country, especially in 
Pennsylvania and New England, people are waking up 
to the importance of family history. 

" In this the closing year of the nineteenth century 
it is fitting to write up the events of the past," and espe- 
cially the history of the families that settled and cleared 
up this country and brought it to its present state of 
civilization. Among the early settlers there were but 
few families if any, who stood higher than the Brandts. 
Three sons and one daughter of the original stock 
came to Fairfield County from Pennsylvania. 

Ludwig Brandt in 1745 left his home in Germany 
and came in a sailing vessel to America. He had a 
long, stormy and perilous passage, but the time passed 
away pleasantly in the society of a pretty German girl, 
Catharine Mueller, whom he met on the vessel. They 
landed in Philadelphia June, 1745, were married July 4, 
and settled at Hummelstown, Dauphin County, Penn- 
sylvania. To this union came five sons and four daugh- 
ters. Adam, the second son. was the father of Jacob, 
Adam and David Brandt, and their sister, Mrs. Jacob 
Pence. 

Ludwig Brandt, a relative of Adam Brandt, 
founder of the Fairfield County family, came to this 



362 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

county as early as 1800. He purchased about 500 acres- 
of land, since known as the Pence and John Brandt 
farms. On this land he paid taxes up to 1806. About 
that time he returned to Pennsylvania and sold his land 
to Adam Brandt and Isaac Pence, who in time settled 
his son-in-law, Jacob Pence and his sons Jacob and 
Adam upon it. 

Jacob Pence and wife, in May, 1802, left Pennsyl- 
vania, came through an unbroken wilderness to this 
county, and settled upon a part of this land — the tract: 
now owned by Geo. B. Brasee, for more than 50 years 
known as the Pence farm. Mrs. Eve Metzler Brandt,, 
mother of Mrs. Pence, with the sons, Jacob and Adam,, 
came out on horseback and made a visit of two weeks 
in 1805, and the long journey homeward was made in 
the same way. 

Jacob Brandt married Frances Baughman, of Cum- 
berland County, Pennsylvania, September 8, 1808, and 
departed the next day in a two-horse wagon for Ohio, 
making the trip in two weeks, about as soon as it could 
be made now. They settled near Mrs. Barbara Pence's, 
now the Reefe farm. Adam Brandt was carried to 
Rachel Dunlap in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,. 
April 14, 1812, and on the day of his marriage started 
in a two-horse wagon for the west. They did not 
make the quick trip recorded of Jacob. Their trip was 
a tedious one. They took a farm near their brother 
Jacob, where they spent their lives, the farm now 
owned by H. M. Brandt. David Brandt, the oldest 
of the brothers, came to Greenfield in 1814, and settled 
upon 80 acres of land, on what is now the Baltimore 
road, the Brooks farm, six miles north of Lancaster. 
Besides being farmers, Adam was a shoemaker and 
David a saddler and school teacher. He taught school 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 363 

in the winter season from 1815 to 1838, in both the 
German and English languages. He took an interest 
in politics, and served as a Justice of the Peace for 
several years. 

The son Isaac inherited many of the good qualities 
of this old scholar and has been recognized in Iowa 
as a good politician and distinguished citizen for many 
years. He was a member of the Iowa Legislature, 
Deputy State Auditor and Postmaster of Des Moines 
under Harrison. He has kindly sent in for this sketch 
an old Whig song of 1840, from which we make an 
extract : 

"THE HERO OF TIPPECANOE." 

'' Ye jolly young Whigs of the nation, 
And all ye sick Democrats, too, 
Come out from amongst the foul party. 
And vote for old Tippecanoe." 
Chorus — 

" And vote for old Tippecanoe, 
And vote for old Tippecanoe, 
Come out from amongst the foul party. 
And vote for old Tippecanoe." 

He sends also a brass medal or badge, with like- 
ness of General Harrison, which was worn by himself 
in 1840. 

" When parties were formed David Brandt became 
a Whig and was a close friend of Thomas Ewing, Sr., 
Henry Stanbery, John M. Creed and Col. Van Trump, 
all of Lancaster. 

In the presidential election in 1828, Fairfield County 
was almost unanimous for General Andrew Jackson. 
In Greenfield township, in which David Brandt lived 
and voted, there were but two votes cast for John Q, 



364 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

Adams, and they were cast by David Brandt and Ja- 
cob Graybill. When the votes were counted out the 
Jackson men said that the two Adams men must accom- 
pany them to Lancaster — they wanted to exhibit them 
as curiosities. They went and had a grand good time. 
General Sanderson and Thomas Ewing said they were 
jewels found in Greenfield township. 

In 1836 the political campaign assumed a wider 
range. Parties had been organized. The Democratic 
party nominated Martin Van Buren as their candidate 
for president, and the Whig party nominated General 
William Henry Harrison. Fairfield County cast 2,906 
votes for Van Buren and i .846 votes for General Har- 
rison. Greenfield township nearly divided her vote 
between the two candidates. In 1840, the memorable 
political campaign in the history of our country, the 
Democratic party placed Martin Van Buren in nomina- 
tion for the second term, and the Whig party nomi- 
nated General William Henry Harrison for the second 
time and dubbed him the hero of Tippecanoe. In June, 
1840, General Harrison visited Lancaster. There was 
a wonderful gathering of the people. It seemed as if 
the hills and valleys, and the highways and byways 
were alive with people, with coons and coonskins, 
buckeyes and log cabins. It was the largest gathering 
ever held in Lancaster up to that date. It was soon 
followed by a monster gathering of the Democrats, 
which excelled that held by the Whigs. The speakers 
were Governor Wilson Shannon and William Medill. 
In September there was a joint discussion on the polit- 
ical issues of the campaign between Richard M. John- 
son, the Democratic candidate for Vice President, Wil- 
liam Allen, on the Democratic side, and Thomas Cor- 
win and Samuel F. Vinton in behalf of the Whigs. 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 365. 

The meeting was held in the woods near the foot of 
Mt. Pleasant. This meeting eclipsed all other gather- 
ings held in the county, and the friends of each party 
returned to their homes satisfied that they would win 
the day. Fairfield County cast 3,318 votes for Van 
Buren and 2,463 votes for Harrison. Greenfield town- 
ship, in which the Brandts were numerous, gave a small 
majority for General Harrison. The ticket voted at the 
presidential election in 1840 was only for electors. 
Ohio was then entitled to 21 electors. Their names 
were: 

WHIG TICKET, 184O. 

William R. Putnam, Resin Beall, Alexander May- 
hew, Henry Harter, Aurora Spafford, Joshua Collett, 
Abram Miley, Samuel F. Vinton, John I. Van Meter, 
Aquilla Toland, Perley B. Johnson, John Dukes, Otho 
Brashear, James Ruguet, Christopher S. Miller, John 
Carey, David King, Storm Rosa, John Beatty, John 
Augustine, John Jamison. 

This ticket in Greenfield township was voted by Da- 
vid Brandt, Sr., and David Brandt, second; Adam 
Brandt, second ; Adam Brandt, third ; Jacob Brandt, 
Sr., and Jacob Brandt, second ; John Brandt, first ; John 
Brandt, second ; George Brandt, Martin Brandt, Jesse 
Brandt, and Henry M. Brandt, Jacob Pence, Adam 
Pence, Philip Pence, Joseph Pence and Henry Pence. 
These, with eight sons-in-law, made 21 straight votes 
for Tippecanoe and Tyler, too, from the Brandt fami- 
lies. Adam Brandt, Sr., voted for Van Buren. 

David Brandt, Sr., was the father of seven sons and 
five daughters. David Brandt, Sr., died October 2y, 
1 85 1, aged 78 years. On April i, 1899, his children 
were all dead except David Brandt, second, who lives 
in Eaton, Delaware County, Indiana, aged 84 years,. 



366 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

and Isaac Brandt, who lives in Des Moines, Iowa, aged 
y2 years. 

Barbara Brandt Pence was the mother of seven 
sons and four daughters. Barbara Brandt Pence died 
April 7, 1850, aged y2 years. All her children were 
dead on April i, 1899, except Henry Pence, who lives 
in Nodaway County, Missouri, aged 79 years. 

Jacob Brandt, Sr., was the father of five sons and 
five daughters. Jacob Brandt, Sr., died December 15, 
1849, aged 67 years. All his sons and daughters were 
dead on April i, 1899, except Adam Brandt, third, who 
lives near Lancaster, Ohio, aged 88 years ; John Brandt, 
who lives in Barnes, Kansas, aged 82 years, and Jesse 
Brandt, who lives near Carroll, Fairfield County, Ohio, 
aged 80 years. 

Adam Brandt, Sr., was the father of seven sons 
and six daughters. Adam Brandt died March 26, 
1844. On April i, 1899, all his children were dead 
except Henry M. Brandt, who lives near Carroll, aged 
80 years, and Elizabeth Brandt Martih, aged 72 years, 
who lives near Carroll, Ohio. 

The families of the Brandts were generally large. 
There were two, however, that were very large, of the 
second generation. Adam Brandt, second, the oldest 
son of David Brandt, Sr., married Rebecca Cooper, in 
Greenfield township, on September 10, 1821. They 
raised a family of seventeen children, nine sons and 
eight daughters. 

Adam Brandt, the third, the oldest son of Jacob 
Brandt, Sr., married Elizabeth Rugh, on March 7, 
1833. They raised a family of fifteen children, six 
sons and nine daughters. 

The second, third and fourth generations are now 
living in all parts of this great country, in the east. 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 367 

west, north and south, some in Cuba and some in the 
PhiHppines. 

There are two traits of character that predominate 
in the Brandt famiHes — that of Christianity and pat- 
riotism. Ninety-five per cent, of the Brandts and 
their descendants are members of Church. Ludwig 
Brandt, who came to America in 1745, was a member 
of the Dunkard Church, and also his grandsons, who 
came to Fairfield County in the first years of the nine- 
teenth century. The younger generations, however, 
have not remained in the faith of their fathers, for now 
they are members of a great many different religious 
denominations. Several of them are ministers and 
have taken high rank as evangelists and ministers of 
the Gospel. 

Their patriotism was developed in the revolutionary 
war. Adam Brandt and Martin Brandt were with 
General Washington during America's great struggle 
for independence. In the war of 181 2 many of the 
Brandts were under the command of General Wayne 
and General Harrison. In the Mexican war in 1846 
the third generation of Brandts were with General 
Taylor and Scott, when they entered the halls of 
Montezuma. 

In the war of the rebellion the name of Brandt 
was upon the muster rolls in ten of the northern states. 
They marched with Sherman to the sea and were with 
General Grant at the surrender of Appomattox. 

In the late Spanish-Cu1)an war the Brandts were 
among the first to enlist in the war for humanity's sake. 
The blood of the Brandts has stained the battle fields 
from 1776 to 1899. 

The Brandts as a general rule were farmers, me- 
chanics, merchants ar.d business men. Some became 



368 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

quite noted as horticulturists, particularly in the line 
of having fine orchards of apples, peaches, pears and 
cherries. On the farm that was settled first by Jacob 
Brandt, in 1808, is a pear tree that is among the oldest 
fruit bearing trees in the state of Ohio. The main 
stock is a white thorn. It was grafted with pear in 
April, 1809, by Jacob Snyder. It has been bearing now 
for 85 years. It is 50 feet in height and covers an 
area of about 40 feet. It has yielded in one year as 
high as 35 bushels of pears. 

Adam Brandt, second, had in 1850, one of the larg- 
est and best apple and cherry orchards in the county. 
From 1840 to i860 a large number of the second gen- 
eration emigrated, going to Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, 
Missouri and Wisconsin. The third and fourth gen- 
erations are still more widely scattered, while quite a 
number still remain in Fairfield County, and are 
classed among our best citizens. 

Adam Brandt, son of David Brandt, and long 
known by his neighbors as Boss Brandt, lived and died 
in Greenfield. He was born in Pennsylvania, June 24, 
1800. His wife, Rebecca Ann Cooper, was born in 
Virginia, August 5, 1802. Her father emancipated 
his slaves and was forced to leave Virginia. He brought 
his family to Lancaster as early as 1806, and followed 
the business of harness maker. The young people 
were married September 10, 1821. To this union were 
born 17 children, nine sons and eight daughters, 14 of 
whom grew to manhood and womanhood. Six sons 
and three sons-in-law were in the Union army. Cap- 
tain O. B. Brandt, who enhsted as a private, was cap- 
tured and taken to Richmond, and endured for many 
months the horrors of Libby prison. He married 
Elizabeth Holmes. Henry C, Jonathan C, Isaac C, 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 369 

William H. and Wesley L. were the other soldiers. 
The soldier sons-in-law were Samuel Radebaugh, who 
died in the service; Samuel Apt, and S. S. Wiest. 
Nine good soldiers for one family is a record unap- 
proachable in this county or any other. At the close of 
the war they returned to their homes and usual occupa- 
tions, and are among our best and most respected citi- 
zens. Adam Brandt died in June, 1874, his wife hav- 
ing preceded him to the grave, dying in 1870. The de- 
scendants of the pioneer brothers are divided into many 
large families. The two Adams, one a son of Jacob 
and the other of Daniel, being the largest. A daughter 
Harriet, is the wife of N. S. Ebright. Of the 
children of Adam Brandt and his wife Elizabeth Rugh, 
daughter of Solomon Rugh, Jacob R. Brandt is the 
most widely known member, a good citizen and a pop- 
ular man. He reared and educated a large family of 
children. Mr. Brandt, besides being a good farmer, is 
a splendid mechanic — a famous bridge builder. He 
is the legitimate successor of Jonathan Coulson in that 
line. A few years since he was the Republican candi- 
date for County Commissioner, and came within 265 
votes of an election. Jesse H. Brandt, of Bloom, a good 
man, and once a brave soldier, is a brother of a Rev. 
John Brandt, of St. Louis, Missouri. He, too, was a 
good soldier. Mrs. Madison Kemerer is a sister, with 
whom Adam Brandt resides, aged 88 years. 

Willliam Brandt, of Basil, is a son of this Adam. 
James Brandt, a justice of the peace in Cincinnati, is 
a grandson. 

The descendants of Adam Brandt, of Pennsylvania, 
who purchased 500 acres here in 1800, and sent out his 
daughter, Mrs. Jacob Pence, and his sons, Jacob, Adam 

24 



370 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

and David, to subdue the forest and till the land, are 
more numerous than any family we can recall. They 
are not like the sands of the sea, too numerous to be 
counted, but it would be a very tedious job. 

The family of Adam Brandt, second, " Boss," alone 
numbered 17, 11 of whom married and reared families. 
The Brandts were plain, quiet, intelligent, and indus- 
trious farmers, discharging every duty pertaining to 
good citizenship. 

The word of a Brandt was always good, and their 
integrity beyond any question. This is a family of 
good old Scripture names. Their parents were famil- 
iar with the Bible, and they have certainly fulfilled one 
injunction of the Scriptures, "increase, multiply and 
replenish the earth." 

For this sketch we have quoted largely from a man- 
uscript of Isaac Brandt, of Iowa, kindly furnished by 
him for the purpose. 

COLONEL SAMUEL SPANGLER 
ONE OF THE GREATEST OF PIONEERS 

Colonel Samuel Spangler was one of the very dis- 
tinguished men of Fairfield County. Distinguished for 
great ability, integrity and in a rare degree as a Dem- 
ocratic politician and legislator. From 1825 to 1850 
his influence in his party was second to no man in 
this county. He was consulted by all of the party 
leaders, including Governor Medill, and in many thmgs 
his wish was law, and in all things his opinions were 
weighty and influential. 

Eight or ten years before his death the township 
in which he had spent his life. Perry, was cut ofif from 
this county and added to Hocking. This embittered 
the closing years of his life and made him unhappy, for 



Of FairHeld County, Ohio. 371 

he loved old Fairfield, the county he so long served and 
helped to make famous. 

Samuel Spangler was born in Dauphin County, 
Pennsylvania, March 30, 1783. His father was a 
farmer, and when Ohio was attracting the first settlers 
he sold his farm, intending to move west, but before 
he was ready to start his money became worthless and 
he abandoned the trip and apprenticed his son Samuel 
to a cabinet maker in Harrisburg. He was to have 
received three months schooling each year during his 
term of service. He had a hard master, and received 
but three months schooling during the whole term. 

When twenty-one years of age he bid adieu to his 
parents, and with the family of George Defenbaugh 
emigrated to Ohio; after leaving Lancaster they cut a 
road through brush and timber to Perry township. 
This was in the year 1801. Cabinet makers were 
undertakers, and he was soon called upon to bury a 
woman on Clearcreek. There were then no saw mills 
in Fairfield County. He cut down a dry walnut tree, 
split it into puncheons, and with ax and adz dressed 
them down sufficient to make a rude coffin. 

In 1807 he married Miss Susan Fogler of the neigh- 
borhood. She was born in Pennsylvania September 
25, 1788. Both she and her husband were of German 
descent. To them were born one son who died in in- 
fancy, and three daughters. The daughters were: 
Barbara, who married Ezra Wolfe; Minerva, who 
married Alexander McClelland ; they settled near Adel- 
phi and reared seven sons and one daughter. Elizabeth 
married John Karshnor and they settled near Adelphi, 
To them were born five sons and five daughters. 

Up to the time of his marriage Colonel Spangler 
had a very poor education, but thirsting for knowledge 



372 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

he began at the foot and purchased Cobb's speller, a 
grammar, geography and an arithmetic. He possessed 
fine natural ability and soon became thorough master 
of these rudimentary books, and throughout his life 
he was a student and reader, and a thoroughly well 
informed man. In the first twenty-five years of his 
life in Ohio he had a few very intelligent neighbors, 
the most prominent being Dr. Ballard, of Tarlton, 
Joseph Shumaker and Esquire Foust. Otis Ballard, 
now of Toledo, sold goods in Tarlton in an early day, 
and speaks in high praise of Colonel Spangler at that 
time. He served as a justice of the peace m Perry 
township for twenty-one years. In 1826, 1827, 1828, 
1829, he was a member of the lower house ot the Ohio 
Legislature, and again in 183 1. In 1832 he was elected 
a State Senator and was re-elected each year tor nine 
years, closing his public career in 1842. 

As a legislator he took part, and a prominent part, 
in the legislation that secured for us the Ohio Canal and 
our common school system. This was the most inter- 
esting period in the history of Ohio, and this legislation 
so ardently and ably supported by Spangler was the 
turning point in the history of Ohio. When reference 
is made to the real beginning of Ohio, we go back to 
the canals and the common schools. 

At the Democratic State Convention in 1836, and 
again in 1838, his friends presented his name as a can- 
didate for Governor. One authority states that he 
came within two votes of securing the nomination. 

He was the special friend of our benevolent insti- 
tutions and gave them his special care and support. 
During his public career he was the friend and inti- 
mate of such Democrats as Governor Medill, John 
Brough, Sam Medary and Micajah T. Williams, one 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 373 

■of the fathers of the public works. In 1843 Colonel 
Spangler retired from public life and gave his attention 
to his farm and his family. About this time both he 
and his wife became members of the Lutheran Church, 
and lived consistent Christian lives. Colonel Spangler 
was a Christian in every sense of the word, both at 
home and abroad. 

For the war of 18 12 he raised a rifle company and 
served his country in two campaigns as Captain of 
his company. During the sickness of his Colonel he 
was the acting Colonel of the regiment. His service 
in the army was such as to receive special complimen- 
tary mention 'by his superior officer. 

Colonel Spangler was a successful farmer and busi- 
ness man for his day, and gave each of his children a 
farm, and some money was left them at his death, De- 
cember 13, 1863. His body was buried at the Adelphi 
cemetery, a few miles from his home. His wife died 
July 7, 1871, and was buried by his side. 

Colonel Spangler was six feet, one inch in height, 
straight as an Indian, finely proportioned, and a man 
of commanding presence. He loved a fine horse and 
was a splendid horseman. He was a great hunter, and 
in the early days was very successful, killing as many 
as seven deer in one day, and shooting plenty of game 
from the windows of houses he was finishing. Samuel 
Spangler Wolfe has his watch, books and cane. The 
cane was cut on the Mt. Vernon estate, Virginia, by 
Governor Medill, and presented to Colonel Spangler. 
The men of this county, who have come down from 
the period in which Colonel Spangler lived, speak of 
him in the highest terms. 



874 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

Like Dr. Williams and Dr. Hyde, he educated him- 
self without a teacher, and while not so great a scholar,, 
he was great in many things, self made and self reliant. 

The writer is indebted to Salem S. Wolfe for valu- 
able information. 

Valentine Wolfe, one of the honored pioneers of 
Madison township, was born and raised near Fred- 
erick, Maryland. About the year 1814 he, with his 
family, emigrated to Ohio, and cast his lot in Madison 
township, where he raised his boys and sent them with 
good habits and strong constitutions out into the world. 

His sons were Ezra, Salem and Isaac. James Rice, 
long an honored and esteemed business man of Lan- 
caster, was a step son. James Rice was for quite a 
number of years a partner of George Ring in the woolen 
mill business, at the foot of Broadway, Lancaster. He 
was also a partner of Silas Hedges for a short time 
in the dry goods business, and in his old age was the 
clerk of John Work in the tin and stove business. He 
was the father of William P. Rice, who died in Cali- 
fornia, and whom John Sherman mentions as one of 
his schoolmate at Howe's Academy. He is men- 
tioned by the Grand Duke of Saxe Weimar, who vis- 
ited his factory and complimented his goods in the year 
1825. Ezra Wolfe married Barbara, daughter of Col- 
onel Samuel Spangler. He settled on a farm, two miles 
south of Clearport, where he lived a prosperous, useful 
life, and where he reared a large family of children. 
His sons were Salem Spangler, Samuel V., Dr. M. F. 
Wolfe, of Parsons, Kansas; Charles F., of Ottawa, 
Kansas, and John L., of Humboldt, Kansas. Salem 
S. Wolfe is a very prosperous man, and a highly 
esteemed and respected citizen of Adelphi, Ohio. He 
at one time represented Hocking County in the General 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 375 

Assembly of Ohio, serving two terms. Samuel V. 
Wolfe, of Clearport, is one of the very successful 
farmers of this county. He is intelligent, a good citi- 
zen, a leading man of his neighborhood and of the 
Methodist Church. He lives in good style and dis- 
penses a generous hospitality. The other brothers are 
unknown to the writer, but it is known that they stand 
well in the communities in which they live. 

The daughters of Ezra Wolfe were Mrs. Jacob 
Beck, Mrs. Charles Eversole, Mrs. Jacob Miller and 
Mrs. Salem Shaeffer. 

Salem Wolfe was born near Frederick, Maryland, 
in the year 1809. He came to Ohio with his father in 
1814. In the year 1830 he was married to Jane Young, 
a daughter of William Young, one of three brothers 
who were pioneers of Madison township. She was a 
cousin of Mrs. Isaac Strickler. He early moved to 
Lancaster, and served an apprenticeship to the tanning 
business with Pratt & Thorne. In 1849 ^^^ bought the 
tannery at the foot of Main street, and conducted it for 
a few years. 

In 1853 he sold his tannery and purchased a fine 
farm in Madison township, to which he removed his 
family. He continued to live there, farming, serving 
as justice of the peace and township clerk, and perform- 
ing other duties devolving upon a good citizen, for 
seven years. 

In 1854 he sold his farm and purchased the old 
home place of Judge Irvin, just south of Lancaster. 
To this farm he brought his family and continued to 
reside there until 1869, when he sold out and moved 
into Lancaster. Here he spent a quiet old age among 
old friends, and departed this life in the year 1875. 
His body was buried at Clearport. 



376 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

His son Ezra is a resident of Lancaster. During 
most of his life he has been an accompHshed teacher of 
instrumental music. Band was his specialty. 

John N. Wolfe, son of Salem, is a resident of Lan- 
caster. He is an engineer by profession, devoting his 
time principally to surveying. He is the present very 
competent city engineer. 

The youngest daughter of Salem Wolfe married 
H. W. Griswold, now of the Gazette. She died sev- 
eral years since. Two daughters live in Indianapolis, 
Indiana. Jessie and Jennie Griswold are grand daugh- 
ters. 

Isaac Wolfe, son of Valentine, came with his father 
in 1814. He married a sister of Martin Landis, and 
lived for many years on a farm near Clearport, where 
he also operated a flouring mill. He moved from Mad- 
ison to Pleasant township, where he spent a few years 
of his old age. He died in Lancaster at the home of 
Mrs. Jacob Giesey, his daughter. 

Isaac Wolfe was a most excellent man, and was 
highly esteemed where he lived. A grandson. Perry 
Wolfe, lives in Lancaster, devoting most of his time 
teaching school. 

The Spangler- Wolfe families are connected with 
many honored people of Madison — the Youngs, 
Shaeffers, Millers, Stricklers, Landis, Hay and 
Becks of Hocking. 

JOHN AUGUSTUS 
One of the early associate judges of the Court of 
Common Pleas was John Augustus, of Clearcreek 
township. He was on the bench as early as 1825 or 
'26, and served five years. He was a prominent man 
in his day, and highly esteemed. He spent the greater 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 377 

part of his life in Clearcreek township. His farm was 
a Httle south of the old Shartle tavern, this side of 
Tarlton. He was buried in the Augustus graveyard, 
which was on or near his farm. His family consisted 
of two sons and five daughters. 

His son David was a farmer, but for a few years 
■of his life he lived in Lancaster. 

His son John was a merchant for some years in 
Tarlton. He failed in business and moved west, where 
he died. 

Col. Wm. Hamilton, surveyor of Amanda town- 
ship, married his daughter Rebecca. Col. Hamilton 
was a first-class surveyor and a good farmer. Mrs. S. 
J. Wolfe (Mary Hamilton) is a granddaughter of 
Judge Augustus. 

Daniel Ream of Madison township married Sarah 
Augustus. Late in life he moved to Jackson County, 
Mo., where he died. What relation he was to the 
Abraham Ream family we cannot state. He had a 
brother named Samuel and another named John, who 
in his old age made cigars in Lancaster. 

The father of Daniel Ream was Samuel, who 
came from Germany. His mother's name was Susan 
Wunderlick, daughter of Count Wunderlick. His 
mother died, and was buried at Carlisle, Penn., Sam- 
uel Ream, the father, died at Daniel Ream's home, and 
was buried at Mechanicsburg, this county. Ream had 
a sister, Polly, who married Moses Wetzel. Mrs. 
Mary Summers, daughter of Daniel, lives in Kansas 
City, Mo. 

Robert Barnet of Madison married Elizabeth Au- 
gustus. She died in a short time after her marriage. 

Rev. Thomas Drake, once well known in Lancas- 
ter, married Hannah Augustus. Drake was a provost 



378 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

marshal here during the war. He went from here to 
Somerset, O., and engaged in merchandising. So far 
as we know he is now dead. 

John Earhart, a miller by trade, married Mary- 
Augustus. Both are now dead. 

There are children of Daniel Ream living, but we 
do not know of any one bearing the name of Judge 
Augustus. 

Ream, Hamilton, Drake and Barnet were men of 
the highest respectability, and in all respects good and 
useful men. So little attention has been paid in this 
county to family or pioneer history that but few people 
now living ever heard of Judge Augustus. 

Forty-five years ago Col. Hamilton was the county 
surveyor of this county. We venture to say that not 
five men in fifty are aware of that fact to-day. Daniel 
Ream was a splendid man. How many men in the 
county remember him ? Thomas Drake cut quite a 
figure here 38 years ago. He is now forgotten. 

Such is fame ! 

THE SHARP FAMILY 

The political history of the family of Joseph 
Sharp, Sr., one of the first settlers of Belmont County, 
Ohio, is one of the most remarkable in the history of 
the state. 

Rol:)ert H. Sharp, of Sugar Grove, was O'U Satur- 
day nominated bv the Democrats as their candidate 
for representative. Conceding his election in Novem- 
ber, and that he will serve the usual two terms, his 
family will have served the state as members of the 
house and senate of the general assembly of Ohio in 
an unbroken line of succession from the first legisla- 
ture to the end of Ohio's first century. 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 379 

Joseph Sharp, Sr.. was one of the prominent men 
of Behnont County in its early history. He was a 
member of the first Ohio legislature, and in 1804 and 
1805 a member of the senate. He was returned to the 
house in 1807 and was re-elected for the years 1808, 
1810 and 1813. Joseph Sharp, Jr., reared a family in 
Belmont County, and about the year 1838 settled in 
this county on a fine farm just below Su,c:ar Grove, 
where his son, William, now resides. He soon became 
a contractor on the Hocking Canal and built for the 
state what has always been known as Sharp's dam on 
the Hockhocking. He was a man of enerev and force 
of character, and soon became prominent in his new 
home. In 1842, just six years after coming to the 
county, he was elected a member of the Ohio legisla- 
ture. He served but one term and returned to the 
management of his farm. He lived to a good old age, 
rearing a large family. One of his daughters is the 
wife of Daniel Stukey. His sons, William and George, 
are farmers ; his son James studied medicine and 
practiced his profession for years in Sugar Grove and 
later in Lancaster. From here he went to Kansas 
City, Mo., where he lived a few years and then returned 
to Sugar Grove broken down in health. He was 
recently killed by a railroad accident near his home. 
Robert L. Sharp, son O'f Joseph, Jr., was also a farmer 
near his father. He was a man of more than ordinary 
ability, of good habits and good standing in his neigh- 
borhood. He was a good business man and wise 
enough to invest early in Kansas City property, which 
became valuable. He was elected a member of the 
Ohio legislature in the years 1864 and 1865. and served 
with credit to himself and honor to his constituents. 
His son, Robert, just nominated for the same ofifice, 



580 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

will doubtless be elected. He is a young man of good 
habits and good character. He resides upon his 
father's old farm. In addition to his farm he manages, 
with profit, a good stone quarry. There is everything 
in the past history O'f his family to stimulate him to an 
honorable and useful career. A century of honorable 
living and precept is behind him, and a future, such as 
he may make it, is before him. That he may prove 
worthy of the high honor conferred upon him and of 
the esteem in which he is held, is the wish of all who 
know hin . 



PENNSYLVANIA, VIRGINIA AND NEW 
JERSEY. 

jt 

ARTZ 

J^—ACOB ARTZ came to Fairfield County about 
the year 1818, from Rockingham County, Va. 
He was one of the many hardy sons of Rock- 
ingham County who for half a century dom- 
inated the eastern part of this county. 

His wife was a Homan and their home was on a 
farm just south of Berne Station, more recently owned 
and improved by his son, John Artz, now 'jd years of 
age and a resident of Lancaster. Jacob Artz died in the 
prime of life, along in the thirties. His widow, in due 
time, married Nathan Weatherby. They lived upon 
the home farm until their death. Weatherby was a 
well known man sixty years ago. He came here from 
New Jersey, where he had been a tanner. For several 
years he was a citizen of Lancaster. In 1832 and 1834 
he was the sheriff of Fairfield County and enjoyed a 
season of popularity. After leaving the sheriff's office 
he became a horse dealer, and was a great patron of 
the turf. No race meeting of his day was complete 
without Nathan Weatherby and in most races his colors 
were worn by the very fast horses. After his marriage 
to Mrs. Artz he became a citizen of Berne township, 
where he continued to deal in and breed good stock 
until the day of his death, about the year 1848. He 
came to his death in a very singular manner. He 
never could bear the sight of blood without fainting. 
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382 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

He was kicked by a horse and when he supposed the 
wound had healed he told his step-son, John Artz, that 
he would like to look at it. He did so and saw a trace 
of blood ; he fainted and died immediately in the arms 
of John Artz. 

GRIFFITH 

Isaac Griffith was a native of Lancaster County, 
Penn. His wife was a Quaker woman, but her name 
is unknown. He came with his family to this county 
in the year 1818, his son Isaac and wife being mem- 
bers of his family. They lived, during the winter, in 
Christian King's home, that stood near where Dr. 
Boerstler now lives. There William Griffith, son of 
the younger Isaac, was born. In the spring of 1819 the 
family moved to a farm near Amanda, where the old 
gentleman purchased about 300 acres of good land, 
known in part as the Leather's farm. A part of this 
land, if not all, is now owned by the heirs of M. A, 
Leist. 

Isaac Griffith, the elder, has been dead more than 
44 years. His soais were Isaac, James, John, Elliott 
and Samuel. The mother was named Polly Williams, 
the son of Isaac 2d, was William, whose first wife was 
a Welshamer. His second wife was a daughter of the 
late Isaac Kerns. He has lived all of his life at the 
old home place of his father, on the pike near the 
crossing of Clearcreek, but very recently moved to 
Amanda. Isaac was another son and there were three 
other brothers of William, viz : Elliott, Samuel and 
John. 

James Griffith, son of Isaac, was married in Penn- 
sylvania. The wife was a sister of James Lytle. 
The sons of James were Thomas, Isaac, Samuel and 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 383 

William. Thomas married a Walters, granddaughter 
of Samuel Peters, the founder of the Peters fam- 
ily. 

Thomas Griffith owns one of the finest farms in 
Amanda township. He is a very prominent and useful 
citizen, and his wife a most estimable woman. 

William, brother of Thomas, resides upon a good 
farm near Hooker. His wife is the daughter of the 
late Joseph Gundy. They live among good people and 
are highly esteemed. 

John Griffith, brother of James, married Polly 
Sweyer, daughter of John Sweyer, a once famous 
Lancaster tavern keeper on the Shaeffer corner. His 
wife was a niece of Col. John W. Noble and Henry 
Dubble, old-time Lancaster people. 

Samuel, brother of John, married a Miss Young, 
a daughter of a pioneer of Madison township. His 
only child, a daughter, married Robert Wiley, son of 
John Wiley, in his time the great cattle man of this 
county. He at one time owned 1,500 acres of Clear- 
creek land. 

Elliott, brother of Samuel, married a daughter ^f 
Isaac Shjeffer, who lived where Samuel V. Wolfe now 
resides. 

The sons of Elliott Griffith were Isaac, Jasper, 
George and William. 

This family, in its history of eighty years in this 
county, has made an honorable record and has made 
alliances by marriage with many distinguished families. 
They have owned, and still own large farms of fertile 
land, which they cultivate with skill and profit. They 
have been, and still are prominent in many neighbor- 
hoods. 

In politics they are Republicans, with a Whig an- 
cestry. William, who was born in Lancaster in No- 



384 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

vember, 1818, voted for General Harrison in 1840, and 
Lincoln in i860. 

Frederick Leathers, of whom Isaac Griffith pur- 
chased his land, was one of the very first settlers of 
his neighborhood. His name appears among the tax- 
payers ot 1806. He kept an old-fashioned tavern on 
the old Circleville road. This tavern was kept open by 
Isaac Griffith, Sr., until 1854. He was one of the land- 
marks in the early days. 

Philip Shartle kept a tavern on the old Chillicothe 
road. He was the grandfather of Isaac Julian, Julian's 
mother is still living. She lived in Lancaster in 1804. 

Farther north on the old road was the Kirk- 
wood house. It was near this house where Thomas 
Ewing and his deputies arrested a gang of counter- 
feiters, who were tried, convicted and sent to prison 
in 1818. 



A HISTORY 

J- 

OF A PROMINENT RUSHCREEK PIONEER FAMILY 
LEIB 

JOSEPH LEIB came with his wife from York 
I County, Pennsylvania, to Ohio, very early in 
^B the century, but the exact date is not known. 
They settled on Rushcreek, in Rushcreek 
township, two miles north of Bremen; His wife 
was a sister of the mother of Hon. Daniel Kel- 
ler, late of Pleasant township. They were good, 
old fashioned German people, spoke the German lan- 
guage, and read the German Bible. They were Chris- 
tian people and members of the United Brethren 
church. They were a thrifty couple, honest and in- 
dustrious. Like all the pioneers, they spun their flax 
on the small wheel, this being the work of the old 
women ; the young maidens spun the wool on the large 
wheel, walking barn floor, or some other large floor, 
for many miles, carrying the thread for a few cuts of 
yarn. They colored their yarn and wove their own 
cloth and then made it into garments. Mothers and 
daughters often clothed, in this way, a family of eight 
to twelve persons. The good old mothers were de- 
voted to their families and loved their work and en- 
joyed it. 

Joseph Leib secured about one section of ~ land 
which he held until his children were old enough to 
occupy it. He built a mill on his home place which 
was run by the water of Rushcreek. This was the 

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386 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

second mill built on Rushcreek. The old mill is still 
standing. The old road which crossed the creek at the 
mill came up the bank of the creek — and that is why 
the old brick house, built by George Beery seventy- 
five years ago, the Ashbaugh and the Weaver houses, 
now stand so far from the road. In the old brick 
house Solomon Beery was born, but we believe that his 
brothers and sisters were born in the old cabin on the 
same farm. 

Joseph Leib and wife had a family of four sons 
and seven daughters. Joseph, David, John and Elias 
were the sons. Joseph married Clarissa Allen — she 
came from Waterford, Connecticut, to Rushcreek to 
teach school. Joseph broke up the school by marry- 
ing the teacher. Miss Allen was of the same family 
as Dr. Silas Allen, of Royalton, Ohio. Joseph suc- 
ceeded his father as master and owner of the old home- 
stead and spent his life there. His son, Samuel Leib, 
is a distinguished and wealthy lawyer of California. 
His son Joseph is a horse breeder in Champaign 
County, Illinois. Hamilton died of disease contracted 
in the army. A daughter married Mason Pauley (half 
brother of M. C. Miller), of Champaign County, Illi- 
nois. Another daughter married Sheriff Barbee of 
Columbus, and still another a wealthy Californian. 

Mrs. Joseph Leib was an educated, cultured wo- 
man, and look an interest in the education of her 
children. They attended school for a time in Lan- 
caster. W. H. Kooken of the Gazette, attended the 
wedding of two of the daughters, and at the marriage 
of the second one he was the groom's best man,and 
Miss Elizabeth Doty was bridesmaid. There was a 
large attendance of friends and thev spent the night 
there. What sleep the gentlemen indulged in was at 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 387 

the barn — as the house was too small for so large 
a party. The morning after the Pauley wedding the 
whole party drove to Michael Miller's for the wed- 
ding breakfast. The young people had jolly times 
at such weddings and greatly enjoyed themselves. 

John married a Miss Williams of the neighbor- 
hood and moved to Crawford County, Illinois. There 
he engaged in farming and there he died. His son. 
Captain John Leib, lives in Illinois, and his sister 
Jane lives with him. Benjamin and James are both 
western farmers. Daniel Leib married Barbary Les- 
lie. He moved to Highland County, Ohio, in 1839, 
where he purchased a farm and a flouring mill. In a 
few years he fell through a hatchway in his mill and 
was killed. His widow moved, with her family, to 
Westerville, to educate her children. Joseph, David 
and Enos were sons, but their place of residence we 
cannot give. Elias Leib married Delilah Hill from 
the neighborhood of Rushville. He once owned the 
fine farm now owned by the Ashbaugh heirs above 
Bremen, and up to middle life was a prosperous far- 
mer. He sold his farm and opened a dry goods store 
in New Salem in the spring of 1850. In two or three 
years he moved his stock of goods to Millersport, 
where he hoped to make some money. Fate was against 
him and in a few years he closed out his business at 
a loss. He dealt largely in grain, and his losses in 
this trade broke him up. Amos and Henry grew to 
be young men at Millersport, and from there Henry 
ventured out upon the world. He married Kate Sites, 
daughter of Frederick Sites of Pleasant township. In 
three or four years his wife died. He then went west 
and now resides in Oberlin, Kansas. He has been 
treasurer of his county. 



388 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

Amos D. Leib married Elizabeth Pope of Walnut 
township, an estimable woman of many accomplish- 
ments. Mr. Leib lived and died in or near Millers- 
port. Mrs. Leib's mother was a Haver, one of several 
gentle and refined sisters. A son and daughter sur- 
vive A. D. Leib. The daughters of Joseph Leib were 
as follows : Catharine married John Frey and they 
settled on a farm adjoining the old home or near it. 
Dr. M. Frey of Logan, was their son. Their son, 
Henry Frey, married a daughter of John Shaw. A 
daughter married Thomas Pad en. Benjamin Frey 
married Mary Leib ; they had no children. They lived 
and died on a farm near the old home. Margaret 
married William Black of Perry County, Ohio. A 
daughter whose name we cannot give married a Mr. 
Mains from a northern county. Barbara married 
Frederick Fisher; they were farmers, but spent their 
old age in Bremen. 

Susan married Amos Davis. He was a good old 
Presbyterian and highly esteemed. Fie owned a farm 
and a mill at the bend of Rushcreek near Geneva. 
They were the parents of Mrs. Sanuiel Doty, long a 
well known and highly esteemed lad>' of Lancaster, 
and the wife of a once prosperous merchant of the 
old firm of Kinkead & Doty. 

Amos Davis, in his old age, moved to Indiana, 
where he died several years since. 

Elizabeth married Ralph Cherry, for many years 
a substantial citizen of Walnut township. Late in 
life with a large family they moved to Hancock County, 
Ohio. Their eldest son was named Joseph, for the 
old grandfather. 

The Leib family received Christian training and 
had set before them every day a good example, and 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 389 

through four generations their training has borne fruit 
in the good lives and good character of a widely ex- 
tended family. 

The old German father and mother had family 
worship morning and night. It was the custom for 
"both to pray, first the old father and then the old 
mother. Their prayers were not empty sounding 
words — it was " the language of the soul," and a 
■deep impression was made upon the kneeling children. 

"From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs," 
That makes her loved at home, revered abroad, 

Princes and lords are but the breath of Kings, 
"An honest maq 's the noblest work of God." 

Samuel F. Leib, the eminent lawyer, resides at 
San Jose, California. He is a trustee of the Stanford 
University of California. The wife of Joseph Leib, 
Sr., was a German woman named Elizabeth Seitz, 
and as stated, a sister of the mother of Hon. Daniel 
Keller. She was a true pioneer helpmate. Like Ger- 
man women of that period, she did a man's work. 
She learned to run the mill, and has been known to do 
it and handle sacks of grain for a day at one time. 
She could stand in a half bushel measure and shoulder 
a sack of wheat. Mr. Leib died in 1839 ^^^ his wife 
a few years later, in 1841, both aged y2 years. That 
is the record upon the grave stones. 

The first deed on record in the name of Joseph 
Leib is dated August, 181 7, for about 300 acres of 
land on which the old mill now stands. The grantors 
were Carpenter & Shallenberger. The soldier record 
of this family is a good one, part of which has already 
been given. There were 17 children, 11 of whom only, 
lived to be well known. 



390 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

Elias Leib had three sons in the army. Amos Davis 
Leib was a member of Company F, First Ohio Cav- 
alry. He served until near the close of the war, when 
ill health compelled him to resign. He served for some 
time as regimental quartermaster and at the time he 
left the service he was acting Brigade Quartermaster. 

He served with distinction and retired with honor. 
It could not have been otherwise, for he was a man 
of ability and a patriot. He retired to his Island home, 
Buckeye Lake, and spent the remainder of his days 
in useful occupation and the society of his family. He 
took great interest in the success of the Republican 
party, and gave much of his time in its service. He 
was often a delegate to county conventions and once 
or twice at least to state conventions. He was an 
alternate to the Cleveland convention, and was then 
elected an alternate, pledged to John Sherman, to the 
Chicago convention. He attended this convention, 
accompanied by his wife. He died in December, 1892. 

Henry F. Leib was a member of Captain Perry's- 
Company, the 90th Ohio Infantry. He served hon- 
orably throughout the war and returned with his com- 
pany to Lancaster. He was Regimental Adjutant at 
the time of his discharge. He is now a prominent 
politician of Kansas, and at present is the postmaster 
of Oberlin. 

Elias Newton was a soldier in the 196th Ohio, and 
belonged to General Hancock's corps. He now resides 
in Marengo, Iowa. Joseph H. C. Leib resides at Prai- 
rie City, Iowa. 

The wife of Joseph Leib, Jr., Miss Allen, was an 
educated woman from Waterford, Connecticut. She 
was a relative of General Ethan Allen of Revolutionary 
fame. She died in the year 1864 or '65. Joseph Leib^ 



Of Fairneld Comity, Ohio. 391 

Jr., lived to be 80 years of age, and died at his father's 
old home. Both were buried near the old people in a 
pretty cemetery on the old farm. A few days before 
his death he sent for Joseph, the son of his old friend, 
Andrew Shaw. He told him that he had once wronged 
his father and could not die in peace without confes- 
sion and restitution. He said that when a young man 
he and a companion escorted two young women to 
some kind of a gathering and that Andrew Shaw and 
his companion took the girls from them, or as it was 
called, cut them out, in other words, the girls treated 
them rudely, gave them the mitten. 

Partly for revenge and partly for mischief, he and 
his friend followed them home and cut the stirrups 
from their saddles. 

He told Joseph that he desired to pay the value 
of the stirrups to him, and asked him to name the 
amount. The money was declined and the debt for- 
given. Sixty years had rolled around and time failed 
to efface the wrong he had done from his memory. 
Joseph Leib was a good man and this story will not 
lessen the esteem in which he is held. 

THE PIGEON ROOST SWAMP 

One of the beautiful locations in this county is the 
Fletcher chapel, a handsome Methodist Church, in the 
northeast corner of Liberty township. It is situated 
on the south line of the fine estate of Isaac Finkbone. 
In the graveyard adjoining He buried the remains of 
old Dr. Waddel, the Gill brothers, the Clicks, the Par- 
rishes, Cools, James Jeffries and Elias and Amos D. 
Leib. 

Dr. Waddel's grave is marked by a handsome mon- 
ument. The Gill brothers all have handsome granite 



392 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

monuments and their graves are kept in good order. 
This place is about six miles from Baltimore, two 
from Kirkersville, and five from Millersport. From 
the graveyard to the south and east is as fine a land- 
scape as can often greet the eyes. The fine homes of 
Fred Mauger, W. K. Thompson and others in Walnut 
township, and Luray, and many fine homes in Licking 
county, backed by a range of beautiful hills ; and the 
old Pigeon roost swamp, now a paradise of farms 
and the fertile valley of the Licking are in full view. 

A drive from this point over a zigzag road to Luray 
is one long to be remembered. 

One-half mile north of Luray, on the hill, is the old 
Wells-Holmes burying ground. In 1812 a church was 
built here of logs, on the land of George Wells, Sr., 
and called the " Wells Meeting House." Later a brick 
church was built, but time has changed things and the 
church is no more. George Wells, Sr., was buried 
here October 2, 1 831. and his wife, Elizabeth (Holmes), 
August 16, 1827. George Wells, Jr., was buried here 
November 9, 1848. Thomas Holmes, a brother of 
James Holmes, Sr., was buried there October 8, 1822, 
aged 78 years. 

James Holmes, Sr., of Walnut township, Fairfield 
County, was buried there in 1823, and his wife, Anna 
(Whittaker), in 1829. James Holmes, Jr., in 1848, 
aged 62 years. All prominent, influential men. The 
graveyard is not very well cared for. From this grave- 
yafd, looking west, over the Licking, is a prospect 
as fine as can be seen in any county in Ohio. Fertile 
farms and beautiful homes greet the eye in great 
numbers. 

W. K. Thompson lives a mile or two south of the 
Pigeon Roost swamp, in Walnut township, Fairfield 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 393 

County. Forty years ago the Pigeon Roost swamp 
was about the size of one section of land, but not square. 
It was covered with a forest and the ground from one 
to two feet often under water. Here milHons of pig- 
eons roosted annually, and it was a great resort for 
sportsmen in the season. The swamp was just over 
the line, in the county of Licking. 

Mary Hartwell Catherwood, of Hoopestown, Illi- 
nois, is a fine story writer. She lived in the Thomp- 
son neighborhood when a young girl. 

She has vf -ently completed a novel entitled " The 
'Queen of the Swamp." The story deals with the 
swamp and the scenes and incidents of the neighbor- 
hood during her childhood. People and traditions are 
mentioned and preserved, and she states that the work 
was a labor of love in honor of her old home. Three- 
fifths of the Ohio part of the book are drawn from 
Walnut township, Fairfield County. 

We learn that Mary Hartwell Catherwood was edu- 
cated at Granville, and that her mother was a Thomp- 
son. She lived near Thompson's when lO or 12 years 
of age. Her father lived for a time on the Stoolfire 
farm, between Luray and Hebron, Ohio. 

After the death of her parents she lived with her 
grandfather Thompson, who had moved to Hebron. 
While quite young she taught a school near Aetna, 
Licking County, and boarded with Dean German, the 
father of Mrs. Jacob Ulrick, of this city. Mrs. Ulrick 
and she were very good friends. Mrs. Ulrick pre- 
serves a photograph taken when Mary Hartwell was 
about 18 years of age. Judging from the picture she 
was as handsome as she is now bright and entertaining. 
Her first short story was written for a Newark paper. 
She has written several good novels for the Century 



394 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

Magazine. She was a bright, ambitious girl, with no 
Hmit to her aspirations as a writer. 

And with all very modest, sensitive and retiring 
almost to a degree of timidity. 

Her ambition, her talents and industry have been 
rewarded, and she now enjoys the distinction due her 
as one of the leading western authors. She is one of 
the contributors to the forthcoming book of James 
J. Piatt, entitled the " Hesperian," of which only 
I, GOG copies will be printed. It is to be an edition 
"de luxe." Mary Hartwell Catherwood's present home 
is Hoopestown, Illinois. 



A BRIEF BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF 
THE BLOSSER FAMILY, OF RUSH- 
CREEK TOWNSHIP. 



BY C. E. KAGY. 

OF the pioneer families who in the early part of 
the nineteenth century sought homes in the then 
western wilderness none are better known of 
those who located in Rushcreek township than 
the Blosser family. 

There were four brothers who came to this town- 
ship about the year 1805 or 1806, viz: George, Jacob, 
Abraham and Isaac Blosser. They came with their 
families from near Lancaster, Pa., and by the usual 
overland and water ro'Ute, the only mode of travel in 
those days. When they reached the Ohio they floated 
down that river to Marietta and from there they 
came to this neighborhood on horseback, bravely 
enduring all the hardships incident to traveling in that 
early day. 

GEORGE BLOSSER 

In company with Jacob Hunsaker, while search- 
ing for a suitable location, came across a big spring 
located on the land now owned by John Rodafer, and 
sat down there, declaring that they would go no farth- 
er. There he built his cabin and lived a number of 
years, raising a large family. His sons were John G., 
who married Sallie Welty ; George, known as "Little" 
George, who married a Miss Brenneman ; Jacob and 
Isaac Blosser. The first three lived in Hocking County. 
Isaac lived in this township. His family consists of 
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ten children, first, Solomon, who married Miss Jane 
Myers and live on one of their farms just east of 
Bremen. Their children are Frank, who married Miss 
Shoemaker; Zetta, who married Albert Brehm and 
lives near Somerset ; Xema, Bessie and Pearl. 

Isaac Blosser, Jr., and his family live in Hocking 
County; Frederick and William live in Perry County. 
The daughters are Mrs. Thomas Garrison, Mrs. Mason 
Lutz, and another sister livine in Straitsville, Ohio. 
We were unable to learn the names of the other mem- 
bers of this family. 

The daughters of George Blosser were Lydia, 
who married William Young and lived on the little 
farm just east of Bremen, now occupied by John Funk. 
Their family were Mrs. Jerry Moyer, Mrs. Mason 
King, Mrs. Matilda Kuhn, James Young and John 
Young, whose life was sacrificed to save the Union, 
in the late civil war. Polly married Benona Black, 
who built the first log cabin on the site of the residence 
of the late Joshua Blosser. Lewis Black, of Sandusky 
Soldiers' Home, is a son. They moved tO' Iowa in an 
early day. 

Sallie married Christopher Welty and resided near 
what is now Max, Ohio. Mrs. John Sanderson is a 
grandchild of Christopher Welty. Rebecca married 
Lewis Stoltz, of Perry County, and Margaret married 
John Geiger. Rev. G. W. Geiger of the U. B. church, 
is a son of John and Margaret Geiger. 

JACOB BLOSSER 

and wife lived on the old Hufford farm, just south of 
here, now owned by George RufT. He had one son, 
Georee Blosser, known as "Big" George, who married 
Miss Dorcas Hufiford and moved west about the year 
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Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 397 

ABRAHAM BLOSSER 

and wue lived near Geneva, in this township. They 
had one son, John Blosser, and three daughters, viz:; 
Katie, who married David Ashbaugh ; Barbara, who. 
married John Derr and MolHe, who was married to 
Mr. Matthew Lecrone. 

ISAAC BLOSSER 
was the other of the four brothers who decided to. 
try their fortunes in this country. He was born near 
Lancaster, Pa., where he grew to manhood and mar- 
ried Miss Elizabeth Kauffman. To this union there 
were born fourteen children, one dying in infancy. 
The other thirteen grew to manhood and womanhood, 
and married, nearly all of them raising large families. 
Isaac Blosser settled on the farm now occupied by his 
youngest son, Samuel Blosser, one and one-half miles 
east of here and lived there until his death, which 
occurred June 1845, ^^ the age of 68 years. Four of 
their children were born in Pennsylvania. The other 
ten were born at the old homestead. As the children 
grew up they assisted their father in clearing the 
heavy forest, and attended school just across the road 
after the district was organized at that place. 

The oldest son, John I., married Hanna Hufford. 
They had six children, four of whom died within two 
weeks' time. The other two were Mrs. Augustine 
Palmer, living sC'Uth of here, and Mrs. Hufiford, widow 
of the late Daniel Hufiford and mother of John Huf- 
ford, of this township. 

Polly married Peter Stemen and formerly lived in 
what is known as Dutch Hollow, on the farm owned by 
the late Abraham Beery. Later they moved west to 
Allen County, Ohio, where they reared a large family, 
most of whom, with their childfen, are now residing 



398 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

in the western part of the state, following the different 
vocations of life, mostly successful tillers of the soU. 

Andrew married Sarah Mericle and lived in Hock- 
ing County, where they died, Mrs. Blosser passing 
away in the year 1863. Their children numbered four 
sons and five daughters. 

The oldest son, John, married Miss Fickle and 
had two children, one daughter, now deceased, rind 
one son. Amos was a prosperous farmer living two 
miles south of here, who married Miss Lutz. Their 
children are Harry Nellie and Clarence. 

Isaac married Miss Margaret Culp and resides in 
Hocking County. 

Noah married Miss Jennie Oatley and lives nenr 
Logan. 

Emanuel married Miss Elizabeth Culp and moved 
with his family from Hocking to Montgomery County, 
near Dayton, where thev now reside. 

Elizabeth married George Wolfe and lives near 
Maxville. Their children are Noah ; Martin, the pres- 
ent probate judge of Perry County, Sarah, Julia, 
Nancy, Andrew, Emma, Frank and Matilda. 

Matilda Blosser married Henry Brennemen and 
moved to Elkhart, Ind., where he died. She after- 
wards married Rev. Hurst, of the Menonite church. 
She died abo'Ut six years aeo. 

Sarah married William Nunemaker. There are 
two sons : Andrew, who is the newly elected treasurer 
of Hocking County, and Charles, who married Miss 
Derr and lives in Logan. 

Lydia married Jacob Hoover and lived in Perry 
County, afterwards moving to Hocking county, where 
lie died. She afterwards married Noah Brenneman, 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 399 

a former resident of this township. She has now been 
dead about thirteen years. 

MaHnda married Dr. H. A. Mumaw, a successful 
practicing physician of Elkhart, Ind., who is also con- 
nected with the normal school of that place. Their 
children are Mrs. Phoebe Kolb, Andrew and Clara 
Mumaw. 

Andrew Blosser afterwards married Mrs. Mow- 
ery, whose husband was killed in the blowino- up of a 
boat on his return from the war, leaving a widow with 
thirteen children. This union was blessed with a pair 
of twins, which with the two sets of children made an 
interesting family of twenty-four. One of the twins 
was Andrew, Jr., who recently resided here with his 
family, but now lives in Junction City. Their children 
are Mazie and Herman. 

The other twin was Lucy, who married a Mr. 
Poling, both of whom are now deceased. 

The fourth child of Isaac Blosser was Nicholas, 
who married Elizabeth Hufford and lived in Perry 
County, near Maxville. 

Nicholas Blosser died in the year 1866. Their 
children are Solomon Blosser, who married Miss Hun- 
saker, and have a large family now living in Hocking 
County. 

Noah H., now a successful physician of Logan; 
Isaac, Eli and Nicholas, Jr., all three having moved to 
Michigan soon after the war. 

Catherine Blosser married Samuel Good and resid- 
ed in this township until their death. They reared a 
large family of children, who are among the most 
influential citizens of the community. Rev. N. W. 
Good, of Columbus, one of the most successful minis- 



400 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

ters of the Ohio conference of the M. E. Church, is a 
member of this family. 

Isaac Blosser, Jr., married Mary (Polly) Reedy 
and resided a short time in Perry County and after- 
wards removed to Iowa with their family. 

Nancy married Christian Berry and moved to 
Michigan, where they died a number of years ago. 

Barbara married Reese Pugh. They lived in 
Bremen and different parts of this county and after- 
wards mo'ved to Iowa. 

Elizabeth married Abraham Miller and resided in 
Liberty township, near Baltimore. They raised a 
large family who were counted among the most high- 
ly respected citizens of the northern part of this coun- 
ty, where most of them still reside. 

Martha married Oliver Grove, late of this town- 
ship, and a brother of Mrs. Noah Blosser, of this 
place. Their family numbers seven children, all living 
in Bremen. The oldest, Isaac Grove, was born in 1845 
and at the time the war broke out was sixteen years 
of age, but, on seeing the "boys' leave for the front, 
he was filled with the spirit of patriotism and joined 
Company "B," Seventeenth Ohio volunteer infantry, 
and saw some hard service. He served three years 
and re-enlisted, coming home at the close with the 
record of a good soldier, and not yet twenty-one years 
of age. He married Miss Lou Hilliard. They live 
in Bremen where he is section foreman on the C. & 
M. V. R. R. They have an adopted son, Roy. 

Caroline Grove is now Mrs. Oscar Seifert. Her 
son, Mr. George Evans, is a popular conductor on the 
C. & M. V. R. R. Her daughter, Clara, married Ira 
Grim, of this place, a brakeman on the C. & M. V. 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 401 

Nan Grove married John Naginey, formerly a 
farmer of this community, but now engaged in the 
manufacture of carpets. Lewellyn Naginey marrieJ 
Ursia Moyer, and lives near Bremen. Eura Naginey 
married George Moyer and at present resides on the 
A. Graffis farm. Emma married Frank Wright. Lil- 
lie, Ida, and Samuel are still with their parents. 

William Grove married Miss Emma Wolfe a suc- 
cessful school teacher of this township. Their children 
are Nellie, Florence, Hazel and Hattie. 

Samuel Grove married a Miss Hamilton, of Rush- 
ville. Their children are Maggie, Dora, Harvey and 
Ruth. 

John and Harvey Grove are still single and live 
with their mother. 

Abraham Blosser married Miriam Graffis, sister of 
A. Graffis, of near this place. They lived several 
years in Hocking County, then in Michigan, and now 
in Tennessee. Their family consisted of eight children, 
only two of whom are now living. 

Noah Blosser was born in January, 1830, and is 
now in his seventy-second year remarkably well pre- 
served for a man of his years. He received a com- 
mon school education and worked on his father's farm 
until he grew to manhood. He and Miss Matilda 
Grove were married June 10, 1850, and for fifty 
years have been constant residents of this township 
living most of that time on a farm and followed tilling 
the soil. During the stormy period of the sixties when 
President Lincoln was calling for volunteers, Mr. 
Blosser volunteered his services and enlisted in com- 
pany F, One Hundred and Fifty-ninth Ohio Volun- 
teer Infantry, leaving a wife and eight small children 
26 



402 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

at home to battle for the comforts of Hfe while he 
was fighting for his country. He served out the time 
of his first enlistment, though at one time on account 
of a severe spell of sickness, was very near death's 
door, the physicians having given him up to die, and 
but for the careful nursing of his faithful comrad, Mr. 
J. J. Ashbaugh, he would never have reached home 
alive. After getting his discharge, he re-enlisted for 
one year or during the war, in company D, One 
Hundred and Eighty-seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 
January 30, 1865 and served the full year, returning 
to his anxiously waiting family about the first of 
February, 1867, with the record of a p-ood soldier, 
ready to begin anew the battles of life. Mr. Blosser 
has served this township a number of terms as trustee, 
in all about fourteen years, and with credit to himself 
and the people of the township. He and his estimable 
wife are now living in Bremen in their comfortable and 
commodious home on the corner of Mulberry and 
Main streets, enjoying the fruits of their many years 
of unremitting toil. They have a family of nine 
children, all grown to be useful and industrious citi- 
zens. 

The oldest daughter, Elizabeth, married Samuel 
McVeigh, and for a number of years lived at the old 
Huston homestead, having recently disposed of the 
same, they are now living temporarily in the Mrs. 
John Kinnen property. 

Their children are Mary, who married Clinton 
Moyer, and have one daughter, Dorothy; Leland, 
Nellie, Dallas and Joseph. 

John Blosser married Miss Dell Glenn. They have 
four children, Dean, Orra, Dewey and Leota. They are 
at present living in Lancaster. 



Of Fair£eld County, Ohio. 403 

Laura Blosser married William Sanderson. Their 
children are, Charles and Frank, hoth exemplary 
young men. They live on a farm just over the line 
in Perry County. 

Charles I. Blosser, for a number of years one of 
Fairfield County's most successful teachers, now of 
Vanwert, Ohio, married Miss Clara Huston. About 
fifteen years ago they moved to Vanwert County where 
he has not missed a year in teaching school, having 
taught together, twenty-four winters. Their children 
are Hattie, Otis, Emma, Xema and Ruth. 

Stephen Blosser married Miss Zetta Davis. They 
live on the old Huston homestead in the eastern part of 
this township, having recently, with brother Samuel, 
purchased the property of their brother-in-law, Samuel 
McVeigh. The children of Stephen and Zetta Blosser 
are, George, Verda, Meda, Fred and Clarence. Sarah 
a bright little girl died a few years ago from the 
effects of a severe burn caused by her clothing having 
caught fire. 

Samuel Blosser is still working in "single har- 
ness' and at present is associated with his brother 
Stephen in the agricultural business. 

Robert Blosser married Miss Maggie Black and 
for a number of years managed one of Dr. H. C. 
Brisons farms near Hebron. He is at present a 
bridge carpenter on the C. & M. V. R. R. Their 
children are Glenn, Emile, Dewey and Ross Wayne. 

Noah Blossiir, Jr., is still of the opinion of his 
brother Samuel that it is good for a man to be alone. 
He was for a number of years a clerk with H. M. Shel- 
hamer, of this place, and now is head clerK in a large 
shoe store in Chillicothe, Ohio. 



404 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

George Blosser, the youngest son of the Noah 
Blosser family, married Miss Anna Shull and is fore- 
man of a section on the C. & M. V., located at Clarks- 
ville, Ohio. They have two children Russell and 
Edna. 

Samuel Blosser, the youngest son of Isaac Blos- 
ser, St., married Miss Betty McDougal and resides at 
the old homestead, having spent his whole life on the 
farm where he was born. Like his brother Noah, 
when his country was calling for men to fight her 
battle he offered his services, enlisting in company C, 
One Hundred and Fifty-ninth regiment, Ohio Volun- 
teer Infantry, and served the lOO days for which he 
had enlisted. Providence has seemingly dealt very 
harshly with him, as he has buried a loving wife and 
five children. Yet he lives in the abiding hope that 
the Lord knoweth best, and that whatever He does 
will be redound to His name's honor and glory. 

The children of Samuel Blosser now living are, 
Libbie who married E. B. Conner. They live in 
Bremen and have two children. Mr. Conner is the 
efficient clerk in G. A. Staker & Company's drug and 
furniture store, and also clerk of the Bremen corpora- 
tion. 

Edward Blosser, married Dora Myers. They live 
on the home farm which he manages for his father. 
They have one daughter, May. 

CELIA BLOSSER 

Celia Blosser married George McCandlish. Mr. 
McCandlish died several years ago leaving a widow 
and two small children, Lee and Ruth. 

The children not living were Isabel, Ida, who 
married Samuel Focht, Simeon, and Effie, both of 
whom died young, and Joshua, whose death occurred 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 405 

a few months ago. Joshua married Miss Myrtle 
Moyer a grand-daughter of George Blosser, who came 
from Pennsylvania. They had one daughter, Inez. 

Samuel Blosser afterward married Mary Beery 
Schatzer, widow of the late David Schatzer. To this 
union was born one son, Samuel, Jr. 

Samuel's mother married John Welty, who owned 
the farm now occupied by Solomon Blosser, where 
they lived until Mr. Welty 's death, after which she 
made her home with her son at the old homestead until 
her death which occurred about twenty years ago at 
the ripe old age of ninety-four. 



SOLDIERS OF THE REVOLUTION. 

J- 

CHE Sons of the Revolution of Columbus, Ohio,, 
have furnished the follow^ing list of such sol- 
diers, who lived in Fairfield County. We 
have not attempted to verify the list, but take 
it for granted that it is substantially correct. There 
are other names that we believe properly belong to 
this list — Rev. John Wiseman, buried at New Salem; 
James Holmes, buried at Wells graveyard. Licking 
County, and Gen. James Wells, buried at the Wells 
graveyard, near Hooker. William McFarland, father 
of the late Walter McFarland, buried at Wells grave- 
yard. The descendants of these men claim with confi- 
dence that they were soldiers under Washington ; but 
we have not the data to verify it ; also, Michael Rice, 
of Hocking township. Emanuel Rufifner was a team- 
ster in the war of the revolution. 

Dr. Robert Wilcox was a surgeon in the Revolu- 
tion ; John and George Hill, both died in Walnut 
township : Rev. Cradlebaugh, of Rush Creek township. 

THE FOLLOWING IS THE SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 
OF COLUMBUS LIST. 

John Alspach, Michael Alspach, David Bufifing- 
ton, Jonathan Burnside, Joshua Burton, Benjamin Car- 
lisle, Benjamin Cave, Jonathan Center, John Colman, 
Johnson Cook, Low Courts, James Crawford, Joshua 
Critchfield, John Cross, William Davis, Philip Ebright, 
Thomas Elsey, Chris. Embrek, Henry Eyman, John 
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Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 407 

Fisher, Henry Fitzgerald, Elijah Hedges, Michael 
Hjnsel, William Hopwood, Ephraim Hnbbart, Edward 
Irvin, William Johnson, John C. King, Daniel Lam- 
brecht, Robert McClelland, John Martin, James Mor- 
ris, John Murphey, Walter Newman, William Priest, 
Jacob Ream, John Reynolds, William Rigby, Eli j an 
Russell, Mathias Sheets, William Shumaker, John 
!- ( c)hlifc, David Smith, Jonathan Smith, Peter Stur- 
geon, Thomas Torrence, Benjrmin Turner, Bernard 
Valentine, George Valentine, Peter Woodring, David 
Wright, Christian Young. 



THE FRIEND FAMILY. 

^OHN FRIEND, Joseph Friend, Jacob Friend, 
I Jonas Friend and William Friend, five brothers, 
^^ came to Ohio from Friend's Cove, Bedford 
County, Penn., early in the last century, the 
brothers who first came, with their aged mother, set- 
tled in Thorn township, Perry County ; but later all 
save William, came over to Fairfield and during their 
lives were well-known and honored citizens of Walnut, 
Richland and Pleasant townships. The mother and 
four of the sons are buried in the Methodist grave- 
yard at New Salem. 

Jonas, who was an honored member of the Primi- 
tive Baptist Church during his life, was buried in the 
Ruffner graveyard, located on what is now the Mrs. 
W. W. Friend farm, in Richland township. 

William Friend and Banner Friend, sons of Joseph 
Fiiend, were prominent farmers, one of Walnut and 
the other of Pleasant township. W. W. Friend, John 
Friend and Elijah were sons of Jonas. They were 
good citizens and led an honorable and useful life. 
The two first named married daughters of Col. Joseph 
Ruffner. The wife of Jonas Friend was a sister of 
the late Thomas Rissler, of Richland township. The 
writer was well acquainted with Jonas and William 
Friend. They were Christian gentlemen of the best 
type and honored and respected by all who knew them. 

Elijah Friend and wife, Mrs. W. W. Friend, Es- 
tella Bauman and family, Elizabeth, the widow of the 
late John Friend, J. W. Friend and family, Mrs. Ed- 
(408) 



Of Fairiield County, Ohio. 409 

ward Geiger of New Salem, Mrs. Jacob Barr and chil- 
dren, Mrs. Nettie Leith and Mr. and Mrs. L. Eyman 
and family are descendants and relatives of Jonas 
Friend. 

Mrs. Elmira Puller of Rushville, Samuel Friend 
and Mrs. Dr. Lewis of Rushville, Mr. and Mrs. Wil- 
liam Love of Perry County, descendants and relatives 
of William Friend. 

Mr. and Mrs. William Eyman and family, Mr. 
and Mrs. William Mast of Thurston, Mr. and Mrs. 
Orren Friend and family, Mr. and Mrs. Banner E. 
Friend and family. Will and Charles Holliday, de- 
scendants of Joseph Friend. 

George W. Friend of Hardin County, is a son of 
John Friend, Sr. The late Jacob Friend of Pleasant- 
viile, was a son of Jacob Friend, Sr. 



THE YOUNG FAMILY, 

BY C. F. KAGY. 

TT I ^^^ ^"^^ coming of the Youngs to this neigh- 
■ A I borhood, begins the history of Rushcreek 
%^r township, which really began in the year 
1799, when the Ashbaiighs found their way 
up from the Ohio to this locality, having come here 
from Pennsylvania. 

The Youngs are of Irish descent, David Young, 
the great-granafather of H. W. Young, having been 
born in County Cork, Ireland, in the year 1753, and 
emigrated to Virginia about 1770 and settled soon after 
in the State of Maryland, near Hagerstown, at which 
place Edward Young, the pioneer of this township, was 
born. 

Shortly after this time the family moved to Juniata 
County, Pa., where the family grew to manhood, and 
in 1799, Edward Young, four sisters and two halY 
brothers left their home in the Keystone State to try 
their fortunes in the then far West. 

Edward Young, after looking around for a suita- 
ble location, decided to take up the land now owned 
by Mrs. Mary Young and her sons, just east of Bre- 
men, at whose place the reunion of the Young family 
was held recently. Here he built his cabin and here 
his ax was laid at the root of the forest tree, his sisters 
making their home with him and keeping house for him 
until the spring, April 2, 1802, when he married Miss 
Rachel Miller, who had come here with her parents, 
arriving on New Year's day, 1800. To this union 
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Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 411 

were born eleven children, eight sons and three daugh- 
ters. 

( 1 ) Asa died in infancy. 

(2) David married Susan Beery and resided for 
a short time in this township, and about i860 moved 
to Putnam County, where most of their descendants 
now reside. 

(3) John married Elizabeth Edwards of Seneca 
County, Ohio, where they lived and died. Their three 
grand-children are (i), Mrs. Jane Cridelbaugh, who 
lives near Springfield, Ohio; (2), Rachel Hawkins 

of Council Grove, Kansas, and (3), Mary , 

who lives in Tiffin, Ohio. 

(4) Margaret Young married Jacob Moyer and 
resided for a few years in Rushcreek. From there 
they moved to Walnut, near New Salem, and from 
there to near Colfax, on the land now owned 
by their sons, Thomas and John Moyer. Their 
children are //^Edward Moyer, who married Miss 
Rebecca Davis and resided in Missouri, where 
his children now live. After the death of his 
first wife, he remarried and now resides in Columbus, 
Ohio. (2) Thomas Moyer married Catharine Jack- 
son. They have three children- — (i) John, who is 
managing his father's farm; (2), Lizzie, who married 

a Mr. Eversole, a prominent grain merchant of 

Illinois; (3) Jennie is a highly accomplished young 
lady, having completed a course in a college of fine 
arts in both Cincinnati and Chicago. (3) John Moyer 
married Jane Collins. Their children are, first, Sadie, 
who married Prof. Chatterton, who died about five 
years ago at Lancaster, leaving a wife and two little 
girls, Bessie Belle and Lucile. The other daughter 
of John is Miss Belle, who is living with her parents ; 



412 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

(4) Margaret Moyer married George Cruit and re- 
sides one mile west of Lancaster. They have three 
children, all living at home at present. (5) Laura 
Moyer married Rev. John Beery of the M. E. Church. 
They have seven children and reside at present in the 
State of Nebraska. (6) Mary Moyer married Capt. 
J. B. Eversole ; she is now a widow and lives with her 
five children at Olney, 111. (7) Lydia Moyer married 
James Stewart. They reside at Corea, Iowa. They have 
five children. Her first husband was Isaac Beery. 

(5) James Young married Nancy Lehman, both 
of whom and all their children are now deceased. 

(6) William Young married Lydia Blosser and 
resided most of their lives on the little farm now 
owned by the Funk brothers, just east of Bremen. Their 
children are ( i ) Mary, who is now Mrs. Jerry Moyer. 
Her children are (i) J. W., who married Miss Me- 
linda Shane and have one daughter, Ethel. (2) 
Llewellyn, who married James Paxton. (3) Myrtle 
who married Joshua Blosser (now deceased). She 
has one daughter, Inez. (4) Inez who lives with 
her parents. (2) John B. Young, who enlisted in 
Company E, Forty-sixth O. V. I., and died from ex- 
posure received at the battle of Shilo. (3) Thomp- 
son, who married Laura Hannum of Indiana. They 
are both dead and left four children, who now reside 
at Marion, Indiana. (4) Matilda married George 
Kuhn and lives at present at Fostoria, Ohio. They have 
seven children. (5) Kate married Mason King and 
resides in this township. They have seven children, 

namely: Court, Tony, Belle, Karl, Frank -^ and 

. (6) James, who left here about eighteen years 

ago and located in Pennsylvania where he married. 
They have three children. 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 415 

(7) Enos Young married Mary Brandt and re- 
sided on the old homestead until his death, which oc- 
curred about fifteen years ago. Their children are ( i ) 
Edward, a prosperous young farmer, who married Car- 
rie Alexander and now resides on a part of the old 
homestead. (2) Wilbur, who is still single from 
choice and is living with his widowed mother, manag- 
ing the farm. 

(8) Thomas Young married Catherine Moyer. 
To this union were born four children, (i) Jacobs 
who married Josie Irvin, of Warren, Ind. Their three 
children are : ( i ) Rose, who married Samuel Ken- 
nedy, a banker of Warren, Ind. (2) Blanche, who 
married William Bond, and (3) Ernest, who is single 
and resides at home. (2) Henry W., the second son 
of Thomas Young, married Matilda King. They have 
a pretty country home two miles north of Bremen, 
where Mr. Young is extensively engaged in the rais- 
ing of small fruit and many varieties of garden seeds. 
Mr. Young's record as a citizen, soldier and public 
servant is an enviable one and worthy of emulation. 
Their children now living are : ( i ) Rev. E. E. Young 
of Germantown, Ohio, a graduate of Heidelberg col- 
lege at Tiffin, and now a successful young minister 
of the gospel. His wife was Miss Anna Shock, of 
Tiffin, Ohio. (2) Charles Young, a successful tiller 
of the soil, married Miss Guyton; they have one son, 
Cecil, and live near Avion, Ohio. (3) Arthur O. 
Young, also a farmer, married Miss Lillie Kagay, and 
at present are making arrangements to move near Mil- 
lersport, where they will look after the farm of Mrs. 
Helser, of Thornville. (4) Miss Blanche Young and 
(5) Walter Young, both of whom are still residing 
with their parents. 



414 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

(3) John M. Young, a third son of Thomas 
Young, married Hanna Hite, and are residing with 
their children at Butler, Ind. (4) William E. Young, 
the fourth son of Thomas Young, married Clarissa 
Neeley. Mr. Young runs a blacksmith shop at his 
country home. They have one son, James, who is 
living at home, two and one-half miles east of Bre- 
men, and assists his father in the shop and on the 
farm. 

(9) Elizabeth Young married William Black, and 
resided on their farm two miles west of Bremen, where 
Mr. Black died twelve years ago. Their children are : 
(i) John Black, who married Miss Laura Musser. 
They have seven children, one son and six daughters, 
the two oldest, Abbie and Leefe, being married. The 
former married Mr. Hoskinson and live in Newark, 
and the latter married Mr. Stover and live in Hebron. 
The other children are Belle, Blanche, Maude, Edna 
and Harry, all of whom live with their parents in He- 
bron. (2) James Black married Miss Groflf. Mr. 
Black was accidentally killed on the C. & M. V. R. R. a 
few years ago, leaving a widow and eight children. 
Lizzie, the oldest, married Mr. Will Huston of West 
Rushville. They have one child. The other children 
are Gertrude, Rebecca, Clara, who makes her home 
with her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs John Stuart; 
Bessie, Nellie, Leila and Orland. (3) The other 
daughter of William Black was Miss Mary who died 
about a year ago, since which time the widowed mother 
has made her home with her son, John, at Hebron. 

( 10) Mary Young married George Groff, brother 
of William Groff of this place. She is now a widow 
and lives at Pleasant Plains, Ind., with her daughter, 
Mrs. Wildermuth and family. 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 415 

(ii) Edward Young married Amanda Kindler 
and now lives at Warren, Ind., where he is a success- 
ful practicing physician. They have two children who 
now live with them. 

It is unlikely that any other family of this neigh- 
borhood has a better military record than the Yoimg 
family. Edward Young's brothers served in the war 
of 1812 and during the Civil War eight grandsons 
of Edward Young went to the front to help put down 
the rebellion. They were Elias, Hezekiah, J. B., T. 
E., J. G., J. M., and H. W. Young, and Edward Moyer. 
J. B. died from exposure received at the battle of 
Sh'Ioh. H. W. Young fell wounded at the battle of 
Chickamauga. Edward Moyer spent about fifteen 
months in southern prisons. 

John Miller, John Ashbaugh and Joseph Ashbaugh 
cleared a patch of ground, planted corn and potatoes, 
and built a cabin in the spring of 1799 on what is now 
known as the Weaver farm. They then returned to 
Pennsylvania for their families. They were the first 
settlers of Rush Creek township, and the first to make 
an improvement. See "Ashbaugh family." 



THE WISEMAN FAMILY. 

ISAAC Wiseman and his wife, Elizabeth, the an- 
cestors of the Wiseman family, of this county, 
emigrated from Berks County, Pennsylvania, to 
Rockingham County, Virginia, soon after the 
war of the Revolution. A large family of sons and 
daughters were emigrants with him. John, Samuel, 
Isaac, Jacob, Abner, William, Joseph. The family 
remained but a few years, living on Linnville creek, 
and with the exception of Samuel, moved farther 
south to Monroe County, Virginia. Samuel, about 
the year 1805 or 1806, moved with his family to Fair- 
field County, Ohio, and settled on Walnut creek, in 
Walnut township, where he reared a large family. 

Jacob and Abner moved to Kentucky, and Isaac to 
Gallia County, Ohio, where they left many descend- 
ants. Rev. John Wiseman, a local preacher of the 
Methodist Church, commissioned by Bishop Asbury, 
reared a large family in Monroe County, Virginia, and 
late in life, at the age of 60, moved to Ohio, accompa- 
nied by his entire family of married and single chil- 
dren, with one exception, Aaron Morgan and wife. 

He settled temporarily on the farm long known as 
the Pence farm, in Pleasant township. 

In less than a year he moved his family to a farm 
adjoining his brother Samuel, but in Perry County. 
Here he spent the years of his old age in a quiet, peace- 
ful and uneventful life. 

He was farmer, carpenter, blacksmith, wagon 
maker, cabinet maker, shoe maker arid preacher, and 
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Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 417 

in all, a good, conscientious workman. His son Joseph 
was a distinguished local mathematician, a well in- 
formed, capable man. He served five years as Asso- 
ciate Judge of Perry County. His son, Philip S. Wise- 
man, father of the writer, lived a part of his life in 
Walnut township, Fairfield County. In the year 1848 
he was the Whig candidate for representative for Fair- 
field County. He was a man of good, common sense, 
a reader of books, and such papers as the National In- 
telligencer, and was well informed. He reared a large 
family and died at the early age of 55 years. He was 
president of the public meeting in Pleasantville in i86i 
when the Pleasantville Academy was organized. 

Ann Wiseman married George Stinchcomb. They 
were the parents of the late Captain James W. Stinch- 
comb. Jacob G, was a farmer and good citizen of 
Perry County, Ohio. 

Sallie married Thomas Brattin and moved to Chil- 
licothe, Ohio. Their great-grandson, Charles Lindly, 
of New York, married a daughter of Ex-Governor 
Denver at Wilmington, Ohio. 

Simon Wiseman, Samuel and Andrew, sons of Jas. 
and grandsons of John, were soldiers of the Union 
army. The first two named died in the service. Theo- 
dore, son of Joseph Wiseman, was a Union soldier 
and died from disease contracted in the service. 

Captain John Wiseman, son of Philip S., was a 
captain in the Forty-sixth Ohio regiment. He died a 
few years since in Chicago, Illinois. 

Rev. John Wiseman was a soldier of the Revolution 
under General Washington, and was one of the suf- 
ferers at Vallev Forge. He died in 1842, more than 
four score years of age. The descendants of Isaac 

27 



418 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

Wiseman are numerous in many western and southern 
states. 

C. M. L. Wiseman, son of Philip Smith Wiseman, 
and Pricilla Lewis, was born January 15, 1829, near 
New Salem, Ohio. His educational advantages were 
the common schools and a good circulating library, 
the columns of the Saturday Evening Post and the 
grand old National Intelligencer, the organ of the Whig 
party. He taught a common school for five or six terms 
in Fairfield County. He then traveled four years for 
C. W. James, of Cincinnati, in the western states. On 
November 25, 1853, he married Mary E. Parr, of Perry 
County, Ohio. April i, 1855, he moved to Lancaster 
and served as Deputy Sheriff under William Potter. 
Later he was deputy clerk of the Common Pleas Court, 
under John Radebaugh. He served four years as sec- 
retary and treasurer of the Lancaster Starch Company. 
In i860 he was elected chairman of the County Repub- 
lican Committee, and conducted the Lincoln campaign. 
May 16, 1861, he was made Postmaster of Lancaster 
under Lincoln, on the recommendation of John T. 
Brasee and V. B. Horton. Four years later he was 
reappointed on recommendation of Carey A. Trimble. 
He was reappointed Postmaster by Andrew Johnson, 
on recommendation of Hon. Thomas Ewing. Again 
reappointed by General Grant on the recommendation 
of Hon. John Sherman, serving in all 13 years. 

He served acceptably as Chairman of the Republi- 
can County Committee five terms. Was many times a 
delegate to district and state conventions. In one state 
delegation, when Senator Ewing was a delegate and 
the chairman. The most pleasing and acceptable, aye, 
honorable public duty that he was ever called upon to 
perform was to preside at the great meeting held in 



Of Fairfield County, Ohio. 419 

the Lancaster City Hall, in memory of General U. S. 
Grant, shortly after his death. The man, whose praise 
was on every tongue, and whose fame had encircled the 
earth. He served five years as steward and financial 
officer of the Boys' Industrial School, five years as in- 
spector for the Board of Underwriters of the city of 
Columbus, six years as state agent of the Home Insur- 
ance Company, and six months as special inspector for 
the Home Insurance Company, of New York. No- 
vember I, 1900, he married a second wife, Mrs. P. E. 
Collins. He is believed to be the only survivor of those 
who took an active and decided stand in the organiza- 
tion of the Republican party of Fairfield County. At 
that time the old Whigs were reluctant in giving up 
their grand old party, and the young men perfected the 
organization of the new Republican party. 

His children are : Henry Clay, of Springfield, 
Ohio; Mrs. Charles E. Williamson, of Omaha, Ne- 
braska; Mrs. Joshua Clarke, Mrs. F. C. Whiley and 
Charles Philip, of Lancaster, Ohio; Mary Elizabeth 
and William Tecumseh, deceased. 
He is in 

" Life's late afternoon 
Where long and cool the shadows grow," 

and will soon be " In the twlight," the evening hour of 
life. 

Not bedtime yet! The full blown flower 
Of all the year — this evening hour — 

With friendship's flame is bright; 
Life still is sweet, the heavens are fair. 
Though fields are brown and woods are bare, 
And many a joy is left to share 
Before we say good night. 



420 Pioneer Period and Pioneer People 

And when, our cheerful evening past, 
The nurse, long waiting, comes at last. 

Ere on her lap we lie 
In wearied nature's sweet repose, 
At peace with all her waking foes. 
Our lips shall murmur ere they close 

Good night and not goodby 



O. W. Holmes. 



INDEX. 



Associate Judges 31 

Asbury, F. Bishop 34, 63, 178 

Attorneys, Early ; . . . 31 

Ashbaugh, David 102, 192, 197 

Achey, Jonathan ;• . . 110 

Amanda Township 121 

Allen family 126 

Academy, Greenfield 149 

Amusements 171 

Applegate, Abe 172 

Associate Judges 31 

Ashbaugh family 192 

Ashbaugh, John 195 

Ashbaugh, John J 196 

Ashbrook family 205 

Ashbrook , Aaron 206 

Ashbrook, E. L 207 

Ashbrook, T. P 208 

Ashbrook, J. M 341, 209 

Ashbrook, Eli 211 

Ashbrook Fanny 212 

Allen , Lyman 324 

Armstrong, John 341 

Augustus , Judge 376 

Artz, Jacob 381 

Artz, John 381 

Brasee, John T 141, 356, 58 

Beck, Jacob, Sr 96 

Beecher, Phil 31, 33, 54 

Boyle, Hugh 31 

Brough , Jno 69 

Baptist Church 35, 64 

Blaine, J. G 75, 79, 154 

421 



422 Index. 

Berne Township 100 

Bloom Township 104 

Buckeye Lake 105 

Basil 108 

Baltimore 112 

Beatty, Judge 199, 124 

Baher, Daniel 130 

Baher, Henry, Rev 131 

Baher, J. H 131 

Blue Ball Tavern 138 

Brasee, John S 141 

Blosser, Noah 401 

Beery family 198 

Beery, Nicholas 198 

Beery, John 199 

Beery, Abram 200 

Beery, Geo 202 

Beery, T. E 203 

Beatty, J. H 124, 199 

Blue, J. Q. A 205 

Bumgardner, H 224 

Baker, C 233 

Beery & Hedges 241 

Brandt, O. B 260 

Bear family 300 

Bright, David, Sr 325 

Bright , David, Jr 325 

Bright, John, Sr 327 

Brandt family 361 

Brandt, Ludwig 361 

Brandt, Jacob 362. 366 

Brandt, Adam 362, 366 

Brandt, David 362, 365. 363 

Brandt, Isaac 363 

Brandt, Boss 368 

Blosser family 395 

Common Pleas Judges 32, 33 

Clerk of Court 31 

Court House 31 

Converse, James 41 

Coates, Samuel 42 



Index. 423 

Connell , John 45 

Creed, John 45 

Clark , Joshua 51 

Creed, John M 60 

Catholic Church 64 

California Expedition 82 

Court of Quarter Sessions 30 

County Commissioners 30 

Churches 34 

Clear Creek 104 

Coulson, Wm 132, 101 

Cole family 134 

Cole, Broad 134 

Cartwright, Peter, Rev 170 

Cox, T. B., Major 172, 175 

Carper, Joseph, Rev 169 

Clinton, DeWitt, Gov 260 

Callahan, Geo., Rev 263 

Carlisle, 287 

Crumley Family 289 

Claypool, S 296 

Claypool, Jacob 298 

Claypool, Albert 300, 302 

Claypool, Wesley 300, 303 

Claypool , Isaac 301 

Claypool, Abraham 297 

Cherry Family 308 

Carpenter Gabriel 344 

Courtright Family 345 

Chaney, John 352, 354 

Catherwood , M. H 393 

Death List of Lancaster 84 

Duke of Saxe Weimar 68 

Distilleries 36, 37 

Davidson, Dr. A 142, 172, 173 

DeBolt, Rev 177 

Debolt, Reason 177 

Dennison , James 357 

Drake, Thos 377, 378 

Davis, Amos 388 

Evangelical Church 35 



424 Index. 

Effinger, Samuel 50 

Eagle Ohio 47 

Ewing, Thos 56, 166, 260 

Early Merchants 44 

Early Sports 171 

Fairfield County Fair 141 

Foster, Rev. Wm 176, 177 

Fetters, Thos 327 

Friend Family 408 

Ohio Canal 112 

Gist Christopher 7 

Groghan . George 7 

Gazette 53 

Click Church 34 

Grist Mills 36 

Greenfield Township 102 

Goldthwait, John 105 

Grayhill Tavern 138 

Gill. John 142 

Graybill , Samuel 172 

Graham Family 292 

Greenfield Township in 1840 364, 365 

Griffith Family 382 

Griffith. James 382 

Griffitli, Thos 383 

Huber, David 37, 141, 142 

Hunter, H. H 57 

Howes Academy 65 

Humnghous, Jno 125 

Hyde. Simon Dr 135 

Hocking Valley Railroad 69 

Holmes. James 258, 259 

Holmes Family 258 

Holmes, Alex 259, 260 

Holmes, Thos 261 

Holmes, Wesley 261 

Holmes, James 261 

Holmes. Jrimos, Jr 263 

Holmes. Samuel 264 

Hooker I'amily 312 

Hooker, Samuel Sr 313 



Index. 425 

Hooker, Samuel Jr 313 

Hooker, Richard Bachelor 313, 315 

Hooker, Richard 314 

Hooker, Samuel 314 

Hooker, Richard of Turkey R 315, 316, 317, 318 

Hamilton, Col. Wm 377 

Irvin, W. W 33, 64, 55 

Jones, David Rev 181 

Kauffman , George 36 

Kreider, M. Z.. Dr 62 

Keller, D. P 178, 235 

Kagy Family 216 

Kagy, L. B 217, 218 

Kagy, Rudolph 221, 226 

Kagy, Martin Dr 224 

Kagy, Jacob 224 

Kagy, C. R 225 

Keller, Daniel 234, 235, 353 

Noble, John Col 50, 260 

Noble, John W 145, 146 

Lutheran Church 63 

Lancaster Academy 65 

Lancaster Bank 66 

Lancaster Library 69 

Lateral Canal 69 

Latta Family 72 

Legislature 33 

Latta , John 45 

Lynch, Gen 100 

Leist, John 104 

Liberty Township 106 

Leonard Henry 108 

Lincoln, Abraham 170 

Lewis , Tilman 34 

Leith, John 179 

Larimer, Isaac 352, 353 

Leib, Joseph 385 

Leib, Joseph Jr 385 

Leib, A. D 388 

Leib. Samuel F 389 

Leib, H. F 390 



426 Index. 

McColIoch, Elizabeth 10- 

McColloch, Samuel 10 

McColloch, Frank 15 

McColloch , Noah Zane 15 

McColloch, William 15 

McColloch, Samuel Jr 15 

Mclntire, John 23, 170 

Mclntire, Sarah 23, 170 

Methodist Society First 34, 35, 252, 63 

Merchants Early 44 

Mechanics Early 47 

Mechanics, 1810 to 1830 50 

Maccracken, S. F 45 

Merwin, E. B 55 

Medill, William 59 

Methodist E. Church 35, 34, 63- 

Madison Township 101 

McNamee, Job 131 

Murphey, Wm 172, 175 

McNeill, J. B 94 

Miner, E. L., Dr 124, 125 

McCleery, Wm 177 

McFarland, W 178 

McFarland, J. C 178 

McClelland, R 182 

McNaghten , Thomas 182, 184 

McNaghten, John 183 

McNaghten, Noah 184 

McNaghten, Owen 184 

McKinley, Mrs 193 

Murphey Family 253 

Murphey, Wm 253 

Murphey, Ed 249, 254 

Murphey, John 253,255, 237, 249 

Matlock, Mrs 142 

Murphey, Elizabeth 256 

McLean, Alex 268 

Mason and Dixon Line 267 

McCleery, James 274 

McCleery 280 

Mcason Family 304 



Index. 427 

Moyer , Jacob 411 

Pleasant Run Baptist Church 35 

Prosecuting Attorneys 33 

Prehistoric Forts 38 

Physicians Early 61 

Presbyterian Church 63, 104, 244 

Private Schools 64 

Public Schools 18, 30, 65 

Professional Men 54 

Pleasant Township 100 

Phoenix Tavern 139 

Pearse, James W 142 

Pedagogues Early 155 to 165 

Pioneer Preachers 166 

Peters, Samuel 183 

Peters Family 183 

Peters, S. R 180 

Peters, Andrew 191, 324 

Peters. Jonathan 205, 214 

Peters, Gershom 205, 214 

Pleasantville Academy 210 

Peters, Rev. Tunis 214, 216 

Peters Philip 215 

Presbyterians of Rush Creek 244 

Pence. David 232 

Pence. D., Jr 238 

Pearse. John V 338 

Pence , Jacob 362 

Pence , Barbara 366 

Pigeon Roost S 391 

Quinn, James, Rev 42, 167, 178 

Richland Chapel 34, 252 

Rush Creek Presliyterian 34 

Reber & Kutz 37 

Ring, George 50 , 38 

Richland 101 

Rush Creek 101 

Rock ^lill 103 

Royalton 120 

Rushville 130 

RuFfncr, Michael 132 



428 Index. 

Reber , Samuel *. 14r» 

Ruffner, Eml 2-29 

Riiffner Joseph, Col 231 

Ruffner, B., Sr 237 

Rowles Family 237 

Rowles, John 237 

Rowles, John, Sr 238 

Rowles, John 240 

Rowles. Wm., Sr 241 

Ruffner, Peter 249 

Ruffner, Michael 250 

Reese, David 48 

Rodebaugh, Joel 255 

Roe, Thos '273, 277 

Rank, David 277 

Reber Family 320 

Reber, Valentine 321 

Reber, John 322 

Reber , Samuel 323 

Reber, Henry 323 

Ream Family 329 

Ream , George 333 

Reed, Wm. James 357 

Ream , Rheem Daniel 377 

State vs. Pealt 32 

Staughtcr, Judge 31, 54, 357 

Saxe Weimar, Duke 08 

Sanderson. George 47, 53 

Sherman , C. R., Judge 55 

Sherman, John 87 

Sherman. W. T., Gen 91 

Stanbery, Henry 57 

Sturgeon I'^amily 70 

Stuckcy, Joseph 100 

Shaffer Tavern 138 

Snider, A. J 141, 199 

Scitz. Enoch Beery 202, 147 

Scliool Teacliers Early 155 to 165 

Stevenson , Daniel 18G 

Saxton, John and Joshua 103 

Saxton . Joseph 194 



Index. 429 

Stukey, W. W 197 

Seitz, Enoch Beery 147, 202 

Seitz, Daniel 202 

Stuart, Thompson 246 

Sturgeon, Thos 71 

Sterrit, Price 71 

Schoch, J. M 357, 358 

Spangler, Samuel 370 

Sharp, Joseph 378, 379 

Sharp, R. L 379 

Sharp, R. H 378 

Soldiers of Revolution 406 

Turkey Run Church 35 

Tallmadge, Darius 37, 60, 141 

Tavern Keepers Early 49 

Taverns' Old Time 138 

Teachers Early 155 to 165 

Teal, Edward 177 

Turner, John 200 

Tong, Geo 26^ 

Taylor , Henry 262 

Tallman Family 281 

Tallman, Wm 316 

Tallman, George 316 

Violet Township 102 

Van Metre Family 335 

Van Metre, Daniel 336 

Van Metre, John I 344 

Wolf, Ezra 374 

Wolf, Salem 375 

Wolf, Salem S 374 

Wolf, Isaac 376 

Wilson, James, Dr 62, 71 

Walnut Township 105 

Williams, John, Dr 149, 65 

Waddle, Rev. Charles 168 

Walters, F., Judge 192 

Wiseman, P. S 417, 210 

Work, Charles, Rev 244 

Wilson, William 247 

Wilson Family Richland 247 



430 Index. 

Wilson, David 250 

Wilson, Isaac 250 

Weatherby , Nathan 381 

Wells-Holmes Graveyard 392 

Wiseman Family 416 

Wiliamson, John, Gen 48 

Wells Family 268 

Wells, Richard 270 

Wells, Gen. James 270 

Wellsville 278 

Wells Grave Yard 279 

Wilson Family 283 

Wilson Nathan 284, 285 

Winter Family 310 

Wagenhals, Rev. John 333 

Williamson Family 348 

Whitman Judge 353 

Wolf, Valentine 374 

Young Family 410 

Zane, Ebenezer 9 

Zane, Silas 13 

Zane, Jonathan 14 

Zane, Andrew 13 

Zane, Isaac 14, 16 

Zane, Elizabeth 13 

Zane, Austin B 13 

Zane, Samuel 12 

Zane, Daniel 12 

Zane, Noah 48 

Zane, John 48 



INDEX OF MEN AND WOMEN 
to 
PIONEER PERIOD AND PIONEER PEOPLE 
of 
FAIRFIELD COUNTY, OHIO 



INDEX OF MEN AND WOMEN 

to 

PIONEER PERIOD AND PIONEER PEOPLE 

Of 

FAIRFIELD COUNTY, OHIO 



Made entirely by- 
Miss Irma B. Gobel, Genealogist 
104 Summit Street 
Roseville, Ohio 
By C.M.L. Wiseman 19OI 



Abbott 


58 


Allen Family 


Orren 


36,134 


Mrs . Ann 


Abrams 


326 


Anna 


Henry 


31,102 


Barnabas 


Achey,Ellzabeth(Spangler)llO 


Benjamin 


George 


110 


Charles 


Jonathan 


110,117 


Clarissa 


Nina May 


111 


Clinton 


William Henry 


111 


Dr. 


Acton, Laura 


274 


Effie Marie 


Adams, Franclna 


214,216 


Eliza 


John Q. 


363,364 


Allen, Elizabeth 


Adcock, Washington 


197 


Elnora 


Addison, John 


161 


Gen. Ethan 


Mr. J. 


160 


Ethel 


Albright, George 


153 


Etta 


Henry 


149 


Eugene Huber 


Jacob 


149 


Flavius 


John 


149 


George 


Alden, Capt. John 


126 


Harding 


Mary 


126 


Howard 128 


Aldred, Dr. A.T. 


261 


James 


Catharine 


261 


Jared 


Dr. 


162 


Jedadiah 


John 


267 


Jedediah 3l4 


Miss 


162 


Jerome 


Mrs. 


266 


Jesse 


Dr. T.A. 


340 


John 


Alexander, Annie 


226 


John B, 


Carrie 


413 


Joseph 


D. 


83 


Lemuel 121 


Ellen Jane 


227 


Lyman 


Alford, Margaret 


257 


Magdalene 


Mr. 


343 


Margaret 


Alfred, George W. 


315 


Mary 125 


Allen 


206 


Mary Etta 


Aliens 


213 


Matthew 



126 

126 

127 
126 

121,126,127 
128 
386 
128,324 
127 
128 

121,324 

127 

128 

126,390 

128 

324 

128 

128,324 

287 

129 

,206,323,324 

159,161 

127 

121,127,128 

,316,323,324 

129 

128 

128,324 

117 

126 

,127,128,129 

128,146,324 

128 

324 

,126,128,324 

128 

126 



Allen, Nora 






324 


Armstrong, Mrs. 


John 341 


Olive 






128 


Katharine 


209 


Pearl 






128 


Robert 


341 


Rachel 


128,322,324 


Thomas 


340 


Rebecca 




126 


.12? 


Thomas J. 


340 


Reber 315; 


,32it,3tl6,3'^9 


Arney, John 


86 


Samuel Ith 






126 


Arnold 


i;^,34o 


Samuel Sr. (1st) 




126 


Catharine 


325 


Samuel 2nd 






126 


Daniel 


327 


Samuel 3rd 






126 


David 


32 


Sarah 


126 


,128 


.323 


Doctor 


149 


Seth 






126 


Frederick 


5l,5;S63 


Silas 






126 




100,321 


Dr. Silas if9. 


,121, 


,123 


,125 


Henry 


47,62,85 




127, 


,346 


,386 


Jacob 


327 


Theodore 






154 


Jerry 


327 


Timothy 






126 


Miss 


62 


Valentine Reber 




128 


Monroe 


327 


Whiting 




121 


,127 


Sarah 


3?7 


William 






364 


Mrs. T.J. 


2!)0 


Allspaugh, M. 






104 


Arnott, Daniel 


48 


Alspach, Ella 






350 


Artz, Jacob 


381 


Henry 




349,350 


John 


381 


John 






406 


Mrs. 


381 


Joseph 






350 


As bury. Bishop 


34,35,63,120 


Michael 






406 


121,167,178 


,186,191,252 


Alspaugh, John 






314 


253,256,266,336,416,129 


Miss Lydia 






314 


Ashbaugh 41 


,102,386,387 


Alt, Emanuel 






107 


Ashbaughs 


342.410 


Joseph 






107 


Ashbaugh Family 


192,415 


Joseph Sr. 






107 


Abraham 


195.196 


Amspachs 






109 


Andrew 


101,192,195 


Anderson, Boliver 




149 




197.198 


Elijah S. 






116 


Catharine 


195,197 


Rev. 






163 


David 102 


,192,197,397 


Samuel H. 






15*+ 


Eliza 


197 


S.H. 






149 


Elizabeth 


193.195.196 


Thomas 






176 




198,243 


Applegate, Abe 






172 


Fred 


197 


Abraham 






172 


Frederick 


192,195 


Abraham V. 






173 


Fredk . 


101 


Abraham VanMetre 


339 


,340 


George 


196,197 


Harrison 






340 


Mrs. George 


Beery 198 


Josina 






340 


Hiram 


196 


Miss 






340 


Jacob 


192,194 


Mrs. 






339 


James 


195,196 


Van. 






337 


Jane 


195.196,197 


Walter 






339 


J.J. 


402 


Apt, Samuel 






369 


John 194,195,196,204 


Armstrong, Eliza 






340 


241 


,242,243,415 


John 






341 


John & Wife 


192,193,195 



Asnbaugh, John J. 

John Jr. 101,192, 
John Jr. & Wife 
John Sr. 
Joseph 192, 

^a^ga^et 195,196, 

.^ari ah 

Mary 

Patsy 

Robert 

Ssmuel 

Seymour 

William 
Ashbrook 
Ashbrooks 
Ashbrook Family 

Aaron 35,100,101, 



195, 



178,225, 
111.1^2. 



Mrs. Aaron(nee Pe 

Aaron P. 
Capt. Aaron P. 
Aaron Tunis 
Abigail Ann 
Absalom 
Adaline 

Amelia l84 
Anna 
Blanche 
Cecelia 
David 
Deborah 
Edward 
Ashbrook, E.L. 
Elenor 

Eli 35 

Elder Eli 
Rev. Eli 55 
Eli P. 208 

E.P. 

Frances Deborah 

Fannie 

Fanny 

Francina 

Frank 

George 

George A. 

Ira 

Ivy 

James 131 



196 
197,198 
192 
101 
193,19^ 
197,415 
197,198 
196 
192,194 
192,194 
196,197 
195,196 
198 
195,196 
233,249 
213,217 
205 
206,208 
212,216 
ters) 
205,207 
208 
214 
220 
220,221 
207,323 
208 
,208,213 
211 
211 
207 , 208 
212 
208,212 
207 
207 
233 
,161,211 
121,122 
,206,216 
,210,211 
212,213 
149,154 
220,221 
208 
212 
218 
207 
323 
207 
207 
207,208 
,207,211 



Ashbrook, Mrs. James 

James A. 208,211 
Jennie 

Janes Scott 220 
John 184,206,207,210 
John M. 206,208,209 
341 
John Monroe 220 
J.M. 37,209,211 
Katherlne 208 
Laura 
Levi 

Lewis K. 220 
Mahlon 
Mary Maria i^jnella 



Mary 

Mary Catharine 

Minerva 

Monroe 

O.A. 

Reason 

Rebecca 

Samuel 

Samuel Clinton 

Thomas 



212 
220 



220 



Thomas M. 
T.P. 

Mrs. T.P. 

Tunis 184,206 
Tunis P. 209,213,232 
Tunis Peters 
William 207,214 
VJilliam Jr. 
V/illiam Sr. 
Atkinson, Ilahlon & Co. 

Mr. 
Atwater, De W.C. 
Atwood, John 

J. Smith 
Atwood & Usher 
Augustus, David 

Elizabeth 

Hannah 

John 31,365,376 

Judge John 

Judge 376,377 

Mary 

Rebecca 

Sarah 



131 

,220 

211 

,221 

,211 

,210 

,354 

,221 

,341 

,213 

212 

211 

,221 

207 

220 

221 

.215 

,221 

207 

207 

210 

214 

212 

207 

,221 

207 

207 

208 

232 

,211 

,244 

208 

,216 

207 

207 

113 

114 

248 

149 

149 

113 

114 

377 

377 

377 

,377 

104 

,378 

377 

377 

377 



Austin, William 
Axley, James 
Axly, James 

Babb, W. 
Bache, Prof. 
Bader 

Nicholas 
Bailey, Mr. 
Balcer, C. 

Christian ll8, 

Daniel 

Hannah 

Rev. Henry 

J.H. 

Rev. Job 

John 

Louisa 

Mahal a 

Margaret 

Mary Ann 

Milton 

Rebecca 

Samantha 

Samuel 

Rev. Samuel 

Susan 
Baldwin 
Ball, James Jr. 

James Sr. 
Ballard, Dr. 

Otis 
Banks, Reuben 
Barbae, H. 

Mr. 

Ex. Sheriff 
3arnett 

Barnet, Robert 
Barnett, Ellen 

Mary 
Barr 

Mrs. Jacob 

V/llllam 
Barrere , Mr . 
Barrett 
Bartlett, Rev. Francis 

Bat ton, Thomas 
Baugher 
Baughman, Frances 

John 

01 iver 



1+9 
167 
252 



Bauman, C. 

Mrs. Estella 
Baxter, Mr. 

Samuel 



4C 
30 
306, 30', 



43 


Dr. Samuel 


307 


193 


Bayard, Thomas F. . 


228 


107 


Bayless, Mrs. Nancy 


262 


106 


Beach, Thomas 


153 


256 


Beall, Rev. Isaac 


153 


233 


Miss 


345 


184,233 


Resin 


365 


130,131 


Bears 


304,306 


221 


Bear Family 


309 


131 


Bear, Adam 


309 


131 


Anne 


309 


131 


Betsey 


309 


131 


George 


309 


234 


John & Elizabeth 


I 305 


234 




308,309 


298 


Katie 


309 


234 


Samuel 


201 


130 


Sarah 


309 


234 


Beatty, Mrs. Belle 


309 


234 


James H. 


124 


234 


J.H. 


124,199 


131 


John 124,199,365 


234 


Judge 


124,199 


36,41 


Beaumaster, Charles 


86 


254 


Beaver, John 


224 


254 


Becks 


376 


372 


Beck, Mr. 


97,98 


372 


George Sr. 


51 


85 


George G. 


84 


239 


George W. 


149,272 


237 


Jacob 49,51,58,95,96,98 


238,386 


99,109,128.138.191 


378 


Mrs. Jacob 


375 


377 


Jacob Sr. 


96 


13 


Jacob P. 


84 


13 


Beckwith, Joel 


133 


248 


Beck, Martin 


85 


409 


Becker, E. 


85 


295 


Beckwith, Mary P. 


218 


287 


Beecher 


125 


103 


Gen. 46,54,55,62,56,65 


242, 245 




77,78,96 


168 


Mrs. Gen. 


55 


39 


Miss Henrietta P. 46 


362 


Jesse 


44 


86 


Miss Louisa 


46 


154 


Phil 


31,33,54 



eecher, Philemon 31,33,4if 
54,66 

Beery 187,217,244 

Berry Family 198 

Abraham 145,148,198,199 

204,205,397 

Beery, Abraham Jr. 200 
Abraham Sr. 200 

Abram 200 

Andrew 201 

Anthony 203 

Barbara 199,201,204 
Brooks 241 

Catharine 202,200 
Christena 203 

Christian 205,400 
Christopher 199,204 
David 199,205 

Delilah 199,124,201,202 
Dr. 324 

Elijah 201,202,199 
Elizabethl99, 200, 202, 204 
Enoch 201,202 

Fanny 199,200,204 
Frank 200 

Mrs. Frank 201 

Frederick 205 

George 145,195,196,198 
201,202,203,205 
241,247,386 
Dr. George 205 

George B. I96 

George W, l49 

Henry I98 

Henry Jr. 202 

Henry Sr. 202 

Beery & Hedges 24l 

Isaac 198,201,202 
203,241,412 
Isaac Sr. 201 

Jacob 32,198,200 
Jesse 201 

Joel 200 

John 32,145,198,199 
203,235 
Rev. John 4l2 

Joseph 203,204,199 
Josephine 196 

Kate 196 

Levi 201 

Lewis 200,205 



Berry&Hedges, Margaret 199, 204 

Maria 202 

Martha 199,204 

Mary 195,199,201,204 

Miss 148 

Nicholas 198,199,201 

204,205 

Nicholas Jr. 199,124 

Nicholas Sr. 202 

Noah 145,199,203 

Priscilla 202 

Rebecca 200 

Samuel 85,203,205,341 

Mrs. Samuel 340 

Samuel S. 153 

Sarah 200 

Berry, Simon 149,196,203,242 

Solomon , 203,322,386 

Susan 199,204,411 

T.E. 203 

Thomas 231 

Thomas E. 196 

Thomas Ewing 203 

Beeten, Jane 290 

Peter 290 

Bell, Henry 85 

Isaiah 163 

Mary 317 

Polly 320 

Belt, Judge 32,33 

Hon. Leven 31 

Judge Leven 32 

Rachel 313 

Richard 313 

Benadum, Aaron 154 

Rev. 109 

Bennett, Mrs. 266 

Benton, 0. 153 

Berger, Catharine 310 

Berger, Miss Katherine 311 

Berry, Abe 86 

John 297 

Bibler, Francis 10? 

Magdalene 230 

Mary 217 

Rebecca 224 

Cynthia 2l6 

Biddison A. l49 

Biddle, Judge 41,57 

Blgelow, Dr. 85 

Biggs, Jacob 230 

Bina, Miss 338 



Binckley 
Binninger 
P.W. 



2lf8 

139 
86 
85 



Bishop, Asbury P. 34-, 63,178 

Black, Mr. 11? 

Abbie M-14 

Belle klH- 

Benona 39^ 

Bessie H-lk 

Blanche H-lk 

Charles 15O 

Clara H-lH- 

D.S. 150,244- 

Edna klk 

Gertrude 414- 

Henry 15O 

Harry 4-14- 

Henry G. 119 

Henry George 113 

James 4-14- 

James 31 
Black, John 47,150,4-14- 

Leefe 4-14- 

Leila 4-14- 

Lewls 396 

Lizzie 414- 

Mlss Maggie 403 

Marietta 222 

Mary 203, 4l4 

Maude 4l4 

Miss 358 

Nellie 4l4 

Orland 4l4 

Rebecca 4l4 

Robert J. 163 

Mrs. Robert J. 226 

Samuel 203,341 

Thomas A. 82 

William 388,414 

VJilliam H. 154 

Blaine, Mr. 77 
James G. 60,75,76, 81 
77,79,154 

J.G. 75,79,154 

Blair, L.A. 65 

Blaire, Henry P. 84 

W.G. 86 

Blanchard, Joseph 255 

Blizzard, Wesley 297 

Bloomfield, Elizabeth 12 



Blooser Family 395 

Mr. 199,204 

Abraham 395,397,401 

Amos 398 

Andrew 398,399 

Andrew Jr. 399 

Barbara 226,397,400 

Bessie 396 

Catharine 399 

Celia 404 

Charles I. 403 

Clarence 398,403 

Dean 402 

Dewey 402,403 

Edna 404 

Edward 404 

Effie 404 

Elizabeth 398,400,402 

Emanuel 398 

Eli 399 

Emile 403 

Emma 403 

Prank 396 

Fred 403 

Frederick 396 
George 395, 403, 4o4, 405 

George(Big George) 396 
George Jr. (Little George) 
395 

Blosser, Glenn 403 

Harry 398 

Hattie 403 

Herman 399 

Ida 404 

Inez 405,412 
Isaac 395,397,398,399 

Isaac Jr. 396,400 

Isaac (oldest) 400 

Isaac Sr. 4o4 

Isabel 404 

Jacob 395,396 

John 397,398,402 

John G. 395 

John I. 397 

Joshua 396,404,412 

Katie 397 

Laura 403 

Leota 402 

Libbie 4o4 

Lucy 399 

Lydia 396,398,412 



Blosser, Malinda 


399 


Martha 




400 


Margaret 




596 


May 




404 


Mazle 




399 


Meda 




403 


Miss 




396 


Mollle 




397 


Nancy 




400 


Nellie 




398 


Nicholas 




599 


Nicholas 


Jr. 


599 



Noah 598,401,404 

Mrs. Noah 400 

Noah Jr. 403 

Noah H. 399 
Noah & Matilda 401,402 

Orra 402 

Otis 405 

Pearl 596 

Polly 596,597 

Rebecca 596 

Robert 405 

Ross Wayne 405 

Roy 400 

Russell 404 

Ruth 405 

Sallle 596 
Samuel 597,^03,404,405 

Samuel Jr. 405 

Sarah 405 

Simeon 404 

Solomon 596,599,^05 

Stephen 403 

Stephen & Zetta 405 

Blosser, Verda 405 

VJllliam 596 

Xema 596,405 

Zetta 596 

Blues 317 

Blue, George 324 

John Q.A. 245 

John Quincy Adams 205 

J. Q.A. 205 

Michael 216 

Mrs . 207 

Bly, John 49 

Bodenheimer, W. 85 

Boerstler, Dr. G.VJ. 85,582 

Bolle, Henry D. IO8 

Bond, John 252 



Bond, Thomas 252 

William 415 

Bollenbaugh, Isaac 549 

Bookwalter, Abraham 105 

Rev. Isaac H. 15O 

John 298 

Miss 549 

Boone, Daniel 282 

Dinah 282 

George 282 

Boos, Jacob 49 

Bope, Philip 86 

Borland, Charles 85 

Mrs. Charles 49 

Mrs. 182 

John 86 

Bouquet , Col . 7 

Boving, F.J. 86 

Bowers, Isaac 221 

Bowman, Benjamin 208 

Bowser, Miss Frances 558 

Boyer, Mr. 527 

Mrs . 130 

John 85 

Boyle, Hugh 51,55,77 

Mrs. Hugh 5^,55 

Brandon, Mrs. John 266 

Brandts 565,567 

Brandt Family 56l 

Adam 562,566,567,568,569 

Adam Jr. 561,562 

Adam Sr. 361,565,566 

Adam & Wife Elizabeth 

569 
Adam(second-Boss) 570 
Adam{second) 365,366,568 
Adam (third) 565,566 
Alma 526 

Boss 568 

Christopher 226 
Daniel (David) 569 
David 226,562,565,564 
561,365,568,369 
Brandt, David (second) 565 
David Sr. 565,566 
Elijah 226 

Mrs. Eve Metzler 562 
George 565 

Harriet 569 

Henry C. 568 

Henry M. 365,366 



Brandt, H.M. 
Isaac 
Isaac C, 
Jacob 

Jacob(second! 
Jacob Sr. 



361 



R. 
Hugh 



H. 



Jacob 

Jacob 

James 

Jesse 

Jesse 

John 

John(first) 

Rev. John 

Jonathan C. 

Ludwig 

Martin 

Mary 

Capt. O.B. 

Rev. Wesley 

Wesley L. 

VJllllam 

Vaillam H. 
Erases 

George B. 

John S. 

Judge John S. 

John T. 37, 
85,141,142,159, 

Hon. John T. 

Judge 
Brashear, Otho 
Br at tin, Thomas 
Braucher, Susan 
Breck, Samuel 
Brehm, Albert 
Brenneman, Miss 

Noah 

Solomon 
Brennemen, Henry 
Brent 
Bretz 

Abraham K. 

Barbara 

Christian 

David 

Eliza E. 

Elizabeth 

Francis A. 
Bretz, George A. 

George V/. 



362 

363,366,390 

368 

362,366 

369,368 

365 

365,366 

369 

326 

261,369 

365,366 

369 

362,366 

365 

369 

368 

361,367 

365,367 

226,413 

260,261,368 

211 

369 

369 

369 

125,142 

362 

141,150 

l4l 

58,59,65.69 

356,301,418 

96 

49,141,154 

365 
417 
333 
150 
396 
395 
398 
83 
398 
160 

223,225 
219 

219,220 
220 

219,220 
219 
219 
219 
219 
220 



Bretz, John 

Lewis K. 

Mary 

Samuel 

Simon Peter 

Valentine 

Valentine&Elizabeth 

W.J. 
Bright Family 

Mrs. Carrie Honora 

Charles 

David 

David Jr. 

David Sr. 

Diana 

Emma 

Enoch 

George 

Jacob 

James 

John 

John Jr. 

John Sr. 

John R. 

Julia 

Louise 

Luther 

Margaret 

Mary 

Moses 

Nelson 

Nlmrod 

Nimrod & Wife 

Samuel 

Sarah 

Susan 

Thomas 

Warren 

William H. 
Brink, Henry 
Brisons, Dr. H.C. 
Brobst, Matilda 
Brook, James 
Brooke & Lewis 
Brooks 

James 
Brough, Gov. 

Jno. 

John 
Brown 
Browns 



220 
219 
219 
219 
220 
219 
219 
219 
320 
111 
326 
326 
325,326 
321,325,327 
327 
326 
328 
327 
321,325,327 
326 
35,110,327 
328 
327,328 
326 
326 
327 
326 
327 
327 
328 
327 
100 
34,42 
326 
327 
327 
327 
327 
327 

85 
403 
292 
150 
134 
362 
298 

85 

59 
59.60,372 

68 
319 



Brown, Albert 




82 


Burrows 


161 


Charles 




267 


Burton, Frank 


12 


Col. 




258 


Jacob 


31,33 


David 




82 


Joshua 


406 


Bright, Levi 




327 


Busby, J.T. 


123 


Brown, Edward 


265,269 


Judge 


44 


George 




12 


Samuel 


123 


John 




228 


Busby & Fetters 


113 


Margaret 




269 


Bush, Jacob 


121 


Miss 




269 


Rebecca 


327 


Nancy 




269 


Samuel 


327 


Rachel 


258,270 


Samuel G. 


150 


Richard 258,265,269 


Butler, Miss 


64 


Col. Richard 


265 


,268 


N.R. & Co. 


191 


269 


,279 


,319 


Gen. Richard 


15 


Sallle 




265 


Samuel 


13 


Sallie C. 




221 


Buxton, Mrs. 


290 


William 




248 






Browning & Noble 




^1 


Caldwell 


5 


Brumbuck, David 




106 


John 


236 


Martin 




106 


Nancy Jane 


302 


Brumfield 




277 


Calhoun, Henry 


121,161 


vailiam 


85 


,111 


Callahan, Rev. George 263 


Brundidge, J.H. 




150 




264,272 


Brush, Mr. 




280 


Mrs . George 


263 


Bryan, Father 




160 


Rev. 


272 


Silas L. 




222 


Katharine 


272 


William J. 




222 


Rebecca 


272 


Bryson, Dr. 




162 


Cameron, Robert 


283,284 


Buchanan 




59 


Camp, Henry 


160 


James 




157 


Mary Jane 


225 


Wilson 




153 


Campbell 


47 


Buckles, Judge 




337 


Alexander 


272 


Buffington, David 




4o6 


James 


150 


Richard 




340 


Cannon, John 


83 


Bull, George F, 




72 


Canode, George 


53,63 


Maria E. 




71 


Carey, John 


365 


Sarah 




127 


Rebecca 


126 


Bumgardner, H. 




224 


Carlyle, Major 


286 


Mrs. Hannah 




224 


Carlisle 


287 


Jacob 




288 


Basil W. 


150 


Leonard 




293 


BenJ amin 


406 


Sarah 




332 


B.W. 


286,347 


Burkhart, John 




27 


Dr. 


287 


Bunyan 




91 


James 


150 


Buriff, Mr. 




341 


James B. 


150 


Burnet, Abner 




121 


Jefferson 


150 


Burnham, August 




294 


Mrs. 


286,287 


Henry 




294 


Thomas 286 


,287,347 


Burns, Mr. 




185 


Carnahan, Archibald 


45 


Burnside, Jonathan 




406 


Carnes, Arthur 


150 



Games, Catharine 


326 


Henrietta 


302 


John 


302 


vailiam 


150 


Carney, Theo. W. 


150 


Carpenter 


^■l,l6o,26^■ 


Carpenters 


36,21+8 


Carpenter, Col. 


193 


Diana 


338 


David 


339 



Doctor David 150,154,341+ 

Emanuel 31,47,100 

Emanuel Jr. 9,33 

Emanuel Sr. 30,31,43 

Gabriel 46,344 

H.W. 150 

Dr. H.W. 154 

John 100 

Carper, Rev. Joseph 169 

Dr. S.D. 344 

Carpenter, Dr. S.D. 344 

John 338 

Dr. P. 84 

Samuel 30,47,85,100 

Col. Samuel 192,197 

Rev. Samuel 52,64,65 

Seymour David 344 

Carpenter&Shallenberger 389 

Carper, Homer 169 

Rev. Joseph 169 

Carr, E.S. 3l4 

Richard I54 

Carters 294 

Carter, George 85 

Cartrlght, Peter ^ 252 

Cartwright, Peter' I70 

Rev. Peter I70 

Case, Miss L. 121 

Sarah 161 

Warren 121, 161 

Cass, Lewis 21 

Cassell, John C. 85 

William 86 

Catherwood,Mary(Hartwell)393 

M.H. 395 

Cave, Benjamin 406 

Cave, Rev. 35 

Center, Jonathan 4o6 

Cessna, Thomas 37 

Chaffin, Robert 249 

Chamberlain, Sarah 237 

Chaney, Dr. 357 



Chaney, Hugh I50 

James 150,357 

John 352,354,356 

Judge 36,354,356,357 

Oliver P. 150,154,357 

S. 248 

Chase, Rev. Philander 272 

Salmon 352 

Chatterton, Bessie Belle 4ll 

Lucile 411 

Prof. 411 

Chenoweth, J. Scott 311 

Cherry 263,304 

Cherrys 259 

Cherry Brothers 306 

Cherry Family 308 

Mrs. Anne 308 

David 267 

Frank 307 

Jeremiah 102,308 

John 150 

John Me as on 308 

Joseph 388 

Mary Jane 254 

Moses 308 

Cherry, Nathaniel 307 

Rachel 305,308 

Ralph 102,242,305,307 

309,388 

Ralph Jr. 308 

Ralph Sr. 308 

Ralph & Anne 308 

Sallie 309 

Sarah 308,309 

Thomas 171,253,254,307 

Mrs. Thomas 266 

Thomas Ralph 308 

William 213,307 

Chism, Cynthia 221 

Church, Isaac 53,85 

Church, Isaac & Wife 64 

James 212 

James T. 2l8 

Cisna, Robert 294 

Clark, 125 

Mr. 14 

A.L. 85 

Asa 114 

George 113 

Horatio 120 

Joshua 51,299 



Clark, Miss Rebecca 13 
Mrs. Rebecca 13 
William 120 

Clarke, Arthur 123 

Dr. Ezra 123,125 
Gen. George Rogers l8l 
Joshua 86,133,27^ 
Mrs. Joshua 4-19 
Capt. Joshua 36,37,1^1 
John 12,13 

Orson 123 

Richard l6l 

W.C. 123 

Claspill, G.W. ^6 

Clay, Henry 68,140,213 
Claypool 66,317 

Claypools 213 

Claypool Family 205,296 
Abraham 297,298 
A.L. 298 

Albert 196,300,302,313 
Albert Jr. 302 

Albert Sr. 302 

Ann 297 

Anna 302 

Austin B. 298 

Edward A. 304 

Edward P. 298 

Elizabeth 297,300 
Emma 300 

Esther 297 

Claypool, Felix 301,302 
Frank P. 302 

Hannah 297 

Isaac 1^1,150,154,297 
298,299,301,302,306 
Jacob 33,52,66,102,297 
298,299,300,301,302,306 
James 191,296,297,302 
303,306 
Jane P. 303 

Jane 297 

James Bruce 302 
Josephine 302 

John 296,297,303 
John Reber 302 

Judge 298 

Levi 303,304 

Margaret 297,300 
Margaret Ann 303 
Martha 302 



Claypool, Mary 300,302 

Mary Elizabeth 302 

Norton 297 

Norton Fravel 303,304 

Rachel 297 

Rhoda 297 

Ruth 297 

s. 296 

Sarah E. 303 

Solomon 298 

Tlrzah 297 

Wesley 300,303 

VJilliam 0. 304 

Clayton, Thomas 234 

Clem, Joseph 343 

Clemens, Alfred I50 

Clement, Charles 122,324 

George 324 

John 324 

Joseph 122 

Joseph W. 122,150 

Mary 324 

William 324 

William L. 122,146,324 

W.L. 322 

Mrs. W.L. 322 

Clements, Joseph H. 123 

Cless, Henry 85 

Cleveland, Grover 127 

Mary 127 

Moses 127 

Samuel 127 

Clinger, Daniel 119 

Clinton, Gov. DeVJitt 50,112 

260 

Clipplnger, Solomon 306 

Cloud, Robert 31 

Clover, George 204 

Clum, George 238 

Cly, Jacob 85 

Coates, Samuel 42,43 

Cobb 372 

Cochran, Mrs. Martha 302 

Cochran, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth 

30 

Miss 265 

Mrs. Sadie J. Ill 

Thomas 197 

Coen, Victor 196 

Coffman, Benjamin 199 

Christian 35 



Coffinberry, George 


49 


Converse 


125 


Coffman, Mrs. Henry 


309 


James 41,43,44 


John 


199,34-9 


Conway, J. 


43 


Martin 


35 


Jeremiah 


32 


Samuel 


199 


Cook, Johnson 


406 


V/llllam 


3^9 


Cools 


391 


Cohagen, Julia 


196 


Cool, Peter 


267 


John 


197 


Cooper, Henry W. 


49 


Cole 


122 


Mrs. Isabella 


255 


Cole Family 


13»l 


John H. 


49 


A. 


l6l 


Perry 


255 


Abraham 


120, l6H- 


Rebecca 


366 


Broad 120,121, 


,129.134 


Rebecca Ann 


368 


164, 


,191,192 


Copeland, Caleb 


230 


David 


350 


Cornplanter 


17.19 


Eleanor 


320 


Cosgrove, Annie 


301 


Lathrop 


313 


Cotton, Dr. John 


68 


Mrs. L.D. 


207 


Coulson, Ann 


132 


Shadrlck 


129 


Henry 


150 


Stephen 


121 


John Davenport 


133 


Thomas 120,121, 


,129 192 


Jonathan 


369 


Rev. Thomas 


150 


Nathaniel 


133 


Coleman, Michael 


155 


Louisa 


132 


Coley, W.H. 


161 


Lydia 


133 


Collett, Joshua 


365 


Margaret Tallman 


277 


Collins 


257 


Mary 


133 


Col. 


338 


Susan 


133 


Enoch 


153 


Thomas 


133.274 


Jane 


411 


William 101,114 


,116,118 


Jesse 


150 


132,133,136,163,189.241 


John A. 


150 


William Jr. 


133 


Lewis 


234 


Courtrlght 


152 


Mrs. Parthenla E 


111 


Courtrlghts 


355 


Mrs. P.E. 


419 


Courtrlght Family 


345 


Philemon 


153 


Abraham 346,349,347 


Colman, John 


406 


Abraham V. Jr. 


345 


Comer, David 


309 


Abraham V. Sr. 


345,347 


Isaac 


204 


Dr. Alvah 


347,348 


Mr. 


204 


CSrrus 345,346.347,153 


Mrs. Sallie 


308 


Effie 345,347,128 


Comly, Gen. 


76 


Ezra 


348 


Gen. James M. 


253 


Dr. George S. 


347 


Coney, Miss 


288 


Jacob 


347 


Connell, Benjamin 


45,46 


Jesse D. 104 


,347,348 


Ella 


345 


John 


345,347 


John 


45 


John Sr. 


347.348 


Col. John M. 


153,344 


John E. 


348,349 


Col. J.M. 


84.210 


Judge 


347 


Miss 


46 


Mary 


346,349 


Connell & Latta 


47 


Courtrlght, Minnie 


333 


Conner, E.B. 


404 


O.P. 


82,345 



Courtrlght, Sallie JU? 

Judge Samuel 3^8 

Silas 546,3^9 

WllllEm 345 

William C. 346 

Winfield Scott 3^5 

Zephaniah 3^5,346,349 

Zephenla 128 

Courts, Low U06 

Cowden, David 86 

Cowen, Dr. 3l8 

Cox, John 153 

Major 172,175 

T.B. (Major) 172,175 

Corwin, Thomas 364 

Thomas B. 85 

Cox, Tunis 45,73,85,116,119 

Rev. Williams339.338,345 

Cradlebaugh, Andrew 201 

Catharine 202 

Col. John 201 

Mary 201 

Rev. 201,406 

Craiglow, James 343 

Crawford 153 

Crawfords 259 

Crawford, Alice 340 

Catharine 340 

Elsie 340 

Emeliza 340 

Eva 340 

George 86 

Jacob VanMetre l62,340 

341 

James 4o6 

Lulu 340 

Margaret 340 

Miss 162 

Priscilla 340 

Samuel 105,340 

Gen. William l4 

Creed 46,47,125 

Ann 324 

Charles 294 

Emma 324 

Fannie 324 

Prank 191,324 

George 191,324,351 

George Sr. 122 

Mr. & Mrs. George Sr.l22 

John 45,66,96,29 



Creed, John M. 


60,363 


Mary 


122 


Mrs. 


324 


William P. 


86 



Creighton, Ada Maud 302 

VJilliam 30,31,54 

Crew, Nina May 111 

Cridelbaugh, Mrs. Jane 411 

Crider, Dr. 85 

Crim, Samuel 82,86,143 

Crist, Miss 347 

Critchfield, Joshua 4o6 

Crocket, Andrew 44 

Mr . 286 

Croghan, George 9 

Cromwell, Elizabeth 296 

Oliver 296 

Crook, John 161 

John S. 332 

Mr. 298 

Crooks, Anderson 197 

John 406 

Cross, John 406 

Cruit, George 412 

Hannah 350 

Robert 350 

William 231 

Crumley 289 

Crumley Family 289 

A.I. 290 

Ann M. 289 

Christian 32,104,289 

290,291 

Conrad 290,291,292 

David 292 

Daniel 289,290,291,292 

Elizabeth 292,296 

E.M. 290 

Emma 333 

Frank 29O 

George 289,291,292 

Gramlich 289 

Jacob 289 

James 289 

John 292 

Jonathan 289 

Mary 292 

Paul 289 

Peter 292 

Salome 290 

Stephen 289 



Crvunley, Hon. T.E. 




289 


Declons, Daniel 


115 


Thomas 




289 


Declons & Delllnger 


115 


Valentine 




289 


Deeds, Abraham 


36 


William 




289 


Defenbaugh, Adam 


101 


Cullimber, S.E. 




296 


Emmett 


324 


Gulp, Miss Elizabeth 




398 


George 


371 


Jacob 




105 


Deitrick, Jacob D. 


63,47 


Lewis 




153 


Delancy, Nancy 


221 


Margaret 




398 


Delano, Dr. Amasa 


^9,61 


Cunningham, George 




191 


Delllnger, Harrison 


115 


John 




162 


DeMoss, Catherine 


337 


Jno 




150 


Denning, R.W. 


38 


Cupp, Valentine 




310 


Dennlson, Families 


357 


Col. Valentine 




162 


Asa 


134 


Curtis, Col 




88 


Gov. 


89 


Col. Samuel B. 




88 


James 357. 


,359.360 


Cushing 




46 


Nelson 


359 


N.S. 




^7 


Nelson W. 


150 


Custer, George V/. 




347 


Denny, James 
Denton, Harvey 


30 

343 


Dallas, James 




83 


Robert 


297 


Darnell 




150 


Simeon 


86 


Darning, Peter 




108 


Dennlson, Richard 


358 


Darst, Henry 




^7 


Denven, Gov. 


417 


Daugherty, M.A, 




85 


Derr, John 


397 


William 




15»^ 


Miss 


398 


Davenport, Coulson 




114 


Devol, Gilbert 


85 


John 




114 


Devor, Daniel 


85 


Hon. John 




132 


Devore, Daniel 


311 


Davidson, Dr. A. 


142 


,150 


Dew, Ishmael & VJlfe 


34,42 




172 


,173 


Dick, John Mason 


163 


Dr. 




142 


Rev. 


163 


Davis 


39 


,244 


Doan, Amelia C. 


189 


Amos 198, 


,245 


,388 


Rev . John 


189 


David Y. 196,21^5 


,247 


Doddridge 


281 


Elizabeth 




198 


Doddridges 


319 


George 




303 


Doddridge, John 


270,271 


Hugh 




50 


J.G. 


86 


Jennie 




196 


Joseph 


271 


Miss 




403 


Joseph G. 


271 


Dr. O.E. 




84 


Philip 


271 


Miss Rebecca 




411 


Dodson, T.G. 


85 


Rhoda 




231 


Donaldson, A. 


105 


Willi a m 




406 


H. 


102 


Dawson, Mrs. Catharii 


ie 


16 


Donovan, Jane 


287 


DeBolt, George 




105 


Dorsey, J.B. 


273,277 


Rev. George 35,64 


,177 


Doty, Miss Elizabeth 


286 




232 


.206 


Samuel 


86 


Reason 




177 


Mrs . Samuel 


388 


Reason A. 




272 


Douglas, Jane 


320 


Rev. 




177 


Richard 


33 



Dove, Henry 


355 


Drake 


378 


Catharine 


346 


Rev. Lem. 


150 


Thomas 


377,378 


Rev. Thomas 


377,378 


z. 


lOif 


Dresbach, Charles 


85 


Drimell, Amos 


262 


Drinkle 


345 


Driver, Dr. 


243 


Drvim, Henry 


52 


Dubble, Henry 52,65 


,150,383 


Duffleld, William 


48,130 


Duke of Saxe Weimar 


68 


Dukes, John 


365 


Dum, Jacob 


325 


Sallie 


323 


Dunbar, Margaret 


297 


Duncan, David 


180,181 


James 


101 


Thomas 


210 


Col. Thomas 


173 


Dunlap, Rachel 


362 


Dunmore, Lord 


12,14 


Dunnlck, Amelia 


208 


Benjamin T. 


207 


Ivy 


207 


Durham, Thomas 


50 


Dustin, M. 


169 


Dysinger, Flora 


350 


Henry 


319 


Rose 


349 


Earhart, John 


377 


Ebrlght, Col. A.W. 


85 


Enoch 


153 


H.S. 


369 


Philip 


4o6 


Eckert, G.L. 


85 


Jacob 


36 


Miss 


205 


Edwards, Elizabeth 


411 


Miss 


286 


Dr. T. 


84 


Efflnger 


44 


Dr. M. 


84 


Samuel 


50 


Einsel, Noah 


219 


Elder, J.J. 


245 


Ellicott Mills, Md. 


238 



Ellis, Michael 

Mr. 
Elsey, Thomas 
Ely, Rev. J.H. 

Mrs . Mary 

Miss 
Embich, Jacob 

W.C. 
Embrek, Chris. 
Emick, Reuben 
Errjnltt, David 
Erick, Sarah 
Espy, John 
Euens, Mrs. 
Evans, George 

Jacob 

Reuben 

William 
Eversole, Mrs. Charles 

David 

Capt. J.B. 

Mr. 
Ewing 

Blaine 

Gen. Charles 

David 

George 

Hugh 

James 

Mrs . James 

John 

Judge 

Mrs . Judge 

Mrs. Margaret 

Matthew 

Mr. 

Hon. P.B. 
Ewing, Judge P 

Mrs. P.B. 

Senator 



168 
115 
406 
319 
319 
329 
51,86 
84 
406 
235 
333 
330 

67 
190 
400 
50 
273,277 
297 
575 
191 
412 
411 
69,101 
75 
85 
101,150 
127 
75,76 
286 
266 
150 
81 
76 
286 
101 
57 
84,81 
76 
78 
96,166,229 
287,418 
Mrs. Senator 75 
Thomas 33,56,57,65,79,84 
101,112,125,150,156,158 
166,261.260,353,364,384 
Hon. Thomas 4l8 
Thomas Sr. 363 

Thomas E. 286 

Tom 75,76 

Gen. Tom 76,85 

Walker 77 



.B. 



77 



Ewlng, William 




286 


Fiske 


182 


Eyman, Christian Baker 


234 


Fismer, William 


85 


Dr. 




234 


Fitzgerald, Henry 


407 


H.B. 




234 


Flattery, Jonathan 


108,150 


Henry 




406 


Josiah 


150 


Mr. & Mrs. L. 




409 


Lucas 


153 


Lou 




234 


William S. 


153 


Mr. & Mrs. Willi 


am 


409 


Flem, Christian 
Fletcher 


84 
391 


Fairfield 




345 


Fling, George 


153 


Pairchild, Mr. 




109 


Flood, John C. 


86,293 


William W. 




153 


Mrs. Rachel 


309 


Faler, J. Luther 




333 


Focht, Samuel 


404 


Pall, David 




232 


Pogler, Susan 


371 


John C. 


^6,85 


Foglesong, Christian 


32 


Fartig, John 




330 


Foley, Bartholomew 


161 


Fast, Catharine 




200 


Poor, John 


103 


Fauble, John W. 




162 


Ford 


263 


Fauley, Mason 


386,587 


John T. 


153 


Feidler, Casper 




119 


Governor 


56 


Fellers, Susan 




345 


Philip 


264 


Ferguson, Dr. 




280 


Poresman 


39 


Mary 




280 


George 


250 


Fernandes, Henry S. 




169 


Forgay, James 


153 


Rev. Henry 




134 


Foster 44,47,76,125 


Fetter 




123 


Aaron 


276 


Peter 




32 


Andrew 


176 


Fetters, George 




173 


Bishop 


257 


Thomas 




327 


David 


86,314 


Fettus, John A. 




143 


F.A. 


287 


Feller, Miss Mary M. 




291 


P. A. Jr. 


153 


Fickle, Miss 




398 


Fred A. 


45 


Fielding, Robert 




86 


George W. 


177 


Findlay, James B. 


168 


,252 


Rev. 


176 


Rev. James B. 




63 


R.S. 


169 


Finck, Eli as 




150 


Samuel 


176,177 


Fink, Lewis 




340 


Col. Samuel 


177 


Finkbone, Henry 




153 


Tallmadge 


169 


Isaac 


119 


.391 


Rev. vailiam 


176,177 


W.H. 




150 


W.R. 


303 


Finnefrock, T.P. 




150 


Foust, Esquire 


372 


Firestone, Daniel 




49 


L.P. 


83 


Fishbaugh, Mordecai 




355 


Fowler, Dr. 


203 


Fisher, Adam 




326 


Pranks, Miss 


196 


Fisher, Daniel 


526 


,327 


Freed, Abraham (Prof 


.) 150 


Ida M. 




226 


Prof. 


123,210 


Frederick 




388 


Freeds 


217 


John 327 


,406 


,407 


Prey, Benjamin 


388 


Rebecca 




326 


Dr. M. 


388 


Samuel 




326 


Henry 


388 


Fishpaugh, M. 




102 


John 


230.388 



Frey, Miss 


161 


Frlckboone, Isaac 


215 


Pricker, John 


42 


Thomas 


48 


Friend Family 


408 


Banner 


408 


Banner E. 


227 



Mr. & Mrs. Banner E. 409 

Charley 104 

Elijah & Wife 408 

Mrs. Elizabeth 408 

George W. 409 

Jacob 408,409 

Jacob Sr. 409 

John 231,408 

John Sr. 409 

Jonas 184,231,257,408 

J.W. 408 

Joseph 408,409 

Mr. & Mrs. Orren 409 

Samuel 409 

William & Wife 229 

William 205,231,408,409 

Mrs. William 205,247 

Mrs. W.W. 408 

W.W. 408 

Friesner, Frederick 199 

Fristo, Mr. 202 

Frisble, Dr. 123,125 

Frost, Hannah 304 

Fuller, Elizabeth 126 

Margaret 221 

Randolph 126 

Rebecca 126 

Fulse, Caroline 333 

Funk, Brothers 412 

John 396 

Furnace, Mary Ann l64 

Furry, Hannah J. 222 

Gafford, Joseph 110,117,119 



Miss E.M. 


110 


Mrs. (widow) 


131 


Gallagher, Joel 


286 


Galligher, Miss 


190,205 


Garaghty, C.F. 


84 


Edw. 


150 


John 


85 


Michael 


66 


Gardiners 


19 



Gardner, Gen. Isaac 



16 



Garner, M. 236 

Garrison, Mrs. Thomas 396 

Gast, Rev. I52 

Gaster, Jacob 4-9 

Gates, James 86 

Robert 85 

Gebelein, Jno. 86 

Geesy, John U. 48,49 

Geiger, Mrs. Edward 408,409 

Elizabeth 233 

Rev. G.W. 396 

John 396 

Peter L. 83 

William 231 

Geil, Abraham 200 

Rev. Jacob 204 

Nancy 200 

Gels, James 52 

Geiser, William 84 

Geisy 338 

Geohegan, Dr. Silas S. II5 

German, Dean 393 

Gesselle, Susan 325 

Getz 47 

Capt. Albert 332 

Ferdinand 86 

William 138 

Chaster, Solomon 83 

Qibbony 277 

John T, 272 

Jones 272 

Philemon McCall 272,275 

Gibbs, John 85 

Gierhart, Frances Effie 311 

Melvin 153 

Giesy, Capt. Emanuel 84 

MaJ. H.H. 85 

Mrs. Jacob 376 

John U. 85 

Gill, John 141,142,265 

Sarah 265 

Gillespie 77 

Elizabeth 55 

John 77,78 

Nell 54 

Miss Susan 5^ 

Gilliam, Attorney 160 

Dr . 160 

Gills 391 

Gilruth, James 168 

Ginger, A.R. 83 



Ginger, David 




83 


Grant, Ulysses S. 


80 


Gist 


8 


,105 


Gen. U.S. 


419 


Christopher 




7 


Grantham, James 


351 


Givens, James 




293 


John 


161 


Nancy 




293 


Gravett, John A. 


226 


Glanville, Sarah 




320 


Gray, Almira 


221 


Glasscock, Samuel 




151 


Dr. Lewis 


12 


Glaze, Eve 




216 


Graybill, Abraham 


327 


Susan 




216 


Christian 


287 


Gleen, Miss Dell 




402 


Edward 


150 


Glicks 




391 


Is aac 


151 


Glick, Elias 




153 


Jacob 


177.364 


Goldthwait 




217 


Samuel 


138,172 


John 105 


,106 


,158 


Samuel G. 


151 


Gooch, Gov. 




335 


Susan 


318 


Good, Clara 




197 


Green, Jacob 


44,49,66 


Mrs. N.W. 




246 


Joseph 


85 


Rev. N.W. 




399 


Lafayette 


221 


Samuel 




399 


Ruhama 


41 


Gorham, Esther E. 




311 


Thcmas 


151 


Goss, Jacob 107; 


,108 


.109 


William 


35 


Dr. J.H. 


107 


,280 


Greer, Mrs. John 


186 


Mrs. Dr. J.H. 




280 


Gregg, Noah S. 


68 


John 




108 


Gregory, M.B, 


84 


Graff is, A. 




401 


Greiner, Christian 


151 


Miriam 




401 


Jacob 


151 


Graf is, A. 




195 


Griffith Family 


382 


Graham 


5 


,295 


Catharine 


351 


Grahams 




292 


David 


153 


Graham Family 




292 


Elliott 


382,383 


Amos 292; 


,291^,296 


George 


383 


Arthur 


292 


,293 


Isaac 382,383,384 


Benjamin R. 




153 


Isaac Jr. 


382 


Edward Boyd 




296 


Isaac ,r. 


382,384 


Elizabeth 




293 


James 153 


.382,383 


Francis 




296 


Jasper 


383 


Fanny 




293 


John 161 


,382.383 


George 


29^,295 


Joseph 


153 


James 




293 


Samuel 


382,383 


George A. 




296 


Thomas 


382,383 


John 




44 


William 


382,383 


John L. 




296 


Grim, Ira 


400 


Myrta 




296 


Grimke, Frederick 


32 


Samuel 




293 


Judge 


33 


Dr. W.C. 




296 


Griner, C.F, 


295 


William 292.293 


,295 


.296 


Ed 


324 


Gramlich-Crumley 




289 


Edward 


295 


Gramllch, Valentine 




289 


Susan 


295 


Grant 




94 


William 


324 


Gen. 


367,1+18 


V/illiam A. 


295 


R.D. 




240 


Griswold, H.W. 


376 



Grlswold, Jennie 


376 


Hamilton, George 


153 


Jessie 


376 


Miss 


401 


S.A. 


85 


Nellie 


355 


Samuel A. 


188,264 


Samuel 


169 


V.M. 


86 


Col. Wm. 121 


,377,378 


Groff, George 


414 


Hammack, Mrs. Daniel 


341 


Miss 


351,414 


Louisa 


203 


William 


414 


Hamrael 


249 


Grogan 


104 


s. 


248 


Groghan, George 


7 


Hammil, Samuel 


31,252 


Gramme, John 


86 


Hammonds 


319 


Grove, Caroline 


400 


Charles 


271 


David 


225 


George 


271 


Dora 


401 


Hampson 


31,45 


Elizabeth 


229 


James 48 


,186,206 


Florence 


401 


Mrs. 


186 


Harvey 


401 


Hampton, Milton 


50 


Hattie 


401 


Richard 


50 


Hazel 


401 


Harman, Dr. G.A. 


546 


John 


401 


John 


250 


Maggie 


401 


Miss 


230 


Matilda 


401 


Sarah 


346 


Melvina 


203 


Amos T. 


215 


Nan 


401 


Fredk. 


101 


Nellie 


401 


Dr. G.A. 


215 


Oliver 


400 


John 


153 


Ruth 


401 


Mrs. (widow) 


215 


Samuel 


401 


Mrs . 


136 


William 


401 


Hand 


265 


Grover, Solomon 


162 


Miss 


265,252 


Groves, Mrs. George 


261 


Hanlin, H.H. 


83 


Robert 


221 


Hanly, James 


48 


Grubb, Elizabeth 


347 


Hanna, Nancy 


293 


Jacob 


300 


Hannum, Laura 


412 


John Q.A. 


151 


Hanover, John 


231 


Joseph 52,73,300 


Hanson, J. 


43 


Gundy, Christian 


106 


Harrison 


50,75 


Joseph 


385 


Harrisons 


283 


Noah 


109 


Harrison, Gen. 213,60,365 


Guseman, Adam 


86 




567,584 


Jacob 


85 


Dixon A. 


151 


Guy ton. Miss 


413 


John 


283 






Jonas 


151 


Haas, Ben 


327 


Miss 


350 


Benjamin 


187 


Mrs . Nancy 


262 


Halderman, George W. 


351 


Pres. 


146 


Hall, Daniel 


220 


Mrs. Susannah 


285 


John 


220 


Gen. Wm. Henry 


564,565 


Sarah 


220 


Gen. W.H. 


68 


Hamilton 


378 


Harshbarger, G.W. 


219 


Allen 


359 


Hart, J.B. 


49,182 



Hart, Judge 




^9 


Hensley, Christian 


334 


Judge Samuel 




182 


Henry Annes 


334 


Thomas 




182 


Jacob 


334 


Barter, Rev. George 




335 


Rosan 


334 


Henry 




365 


Tobias 


334 


Hartman, Dr. 




234 


Henthorn, John 


231 


Harvey, James 




265 


Herr, Samuel 


52,84 


Hary, Thomas E. 




153 


Herron, Mrs. 


101 


Hatch, Alfred 




216 


Hershbarger, Barbara 


231 


Havens, Isaac B. 




15^ 


Hershberger, Lewis 


331 


Joseph 




151 


Hess, Anna 


330 


Joseph M. 




153 


Hickman, Rebecca 


337 


Havers 




259 


Rev. 


337 


Haver, Miss Elizabeth 


305 


George 


406 


George 




266 


Hildebrand, Henry 


113 


Mrs. George 




253 


Hill 


5 


Jerri ah 




266 


Delilah 


387 


Miss 


266 


,388 


John 


406 


Peter 


266 


,305 


Mrs . John 


208 


Hawkins, Rachel 




J+ll 


John R. 


233 


Hawthorne, Nathaniel 




361 


Joseph Vance 


221 


Hay 


170 


,376 


VJilliam 


233 


Jonathan 




320 


Hilliard, Miss Lou 


400 


Joseph 




151 


Hillis, Mr. 


202 


Peter 


151 


.27Mr 


Hintons 


283 


Hayes 




90 


Hite, George 


151 


Head, Thomas 




277 


Abraham 


35 


Thomas B. 




273 


Andrew 


223 


Heberling, John A. 




342 


Ann 


222 


Heck, Frederick 




2if8 


Anna 


228 


Hedges 




21^1 


Catherine 


222,228 


Abraham 




281 


Cecelia J. 


223 


Elijah 




407 


Hitt, Daniel 


35 


Joseph 




324 


Hite, Hannah 


414 


Rebecca 




320 


Jacob 


228,335 


Silas 


85.37*^ 


J.C. 


210 


Hear, F.J. 




1 


Mrs. J.C. 


232 


Heffner, Annie 




327 


John 


222 


Heist and, Abraham 




32 


Rev. John 35,105. 


,109,228 


Helmick, Dr. Luke 


116 


,124 


Squire John 


228 


Helser, Mrs. 




413 


Jonas 


236 


Hendershot, Mrs. 




339 


Joseph 


204 


Hendershott, John 




151 


Levi 


236,347 


Henderson, David 




154 


Samuel 


228 


Maria 




245 


Hitt, Rev. Samuel 


181 


Martha 




214 


Hoag, Rev. 


121 


Hengst, Levi 




275 


Hoffer, Miss 


152 


Henley, Capt. J. 




85 


Hoffman, Barbara 


226 


Henry, Mrs. W.B. 




246 


Daniel 


292 


Hensel, Michael 




407 


Hoffman, Mrs. George 


190 


Hensley, Adam 




334 


Hogue, Dr. 


128 



Holllday 




327 


Holmes, Richard 


263,265,261 


Charles 




409 


Roland 




265 


John 


231 


,242,243 


Samuel 




264 


Mary 




243 


Samuel Jr. 




264 


Rebecca 




243 


Samuel Sr. 




264 


Rebecca C. 




246 


Sarah 258,262,267,268 


Will 




409 


Holmes, Thomas 


258 


,259,261 


Zebulon 




243,246 






262,392 


Holmes 




263 


Thomas Sr. 




262 


Holmes Family 




258 


Mrs. Thomas 




263 


Alexander 


258,259,260 


Wesley 




261 






261,270 


William 


258,263,267 


Amanda 




265 


Wm. H. 




258,268 


Anna (Whit taker) 


392 


Romans, Washingti 


on 


86 


Basil 




265,266 


Homer 




176 


Catharine 




266 


Homrighous, Philip 


103 


Charles 




265 


Homrighouse, L. 




151 


Ella 




261 


Hood, Charles 




69 


Eli 


260,265,266 


George 




86 


Mrs. Ell 




269 


George Sr. 




52 


Elizabeth 


258, 


,261,262 


Judge 




271 




267 


,269,268 


Nancy 




357 


Florence 




261 


W.C. 




271 


George 


261 


,265,267 


Hooker, 66,271 


,306,316,317 


Harriet 




262,283 


Hooker Family 




312 


Henry 




261 


Aquilla 




312 


Hester 




267 


Barny 




312 


Holt, Jacob 




86 


Charity 




312 


Holmes, Jamesl05, 258, 259,261 


Dick 




315 


262,263,265 


,266,267,270 


Elizabeth 




318.320 






406 


Emanuel 




318 


James Jr. 


259: 


,263,264 


Maj. EmanueKCapt.) 319 






265,392 






318 


James Sr.258,259,269,392 


Eur at h 




312,313 


James H. 




265 


Eureth 




315 


Joseph 


254,266,267 


Fannie 




319 


Joshua 




267 


George 




318,319 


Judge 




260 


George W. 




314 


Lemuel 




265 


Jacob 




312 


Lenorah 




258 


Jared 


I5I: 


,313,314 


Maria 




261 


Jessie 




318 


Mary 




261 


John 




314 


Miss 




269,381 


John Randolph 


318 


Nancy 




262,267 


Kezia 




312 


Mrs. Nancy 




266 


Loretta 




314 


o.w. 




420 


Louise 




315 


Peter 




266 


Margaret 




312 


Rachel 




262 


Martha 




312,314 


Mrs . Rachel 




261 


Mary 312, 


,313, 


.315,318 


Reason 




265,267 


Milcha 




313 


Rebecca 




267 


Miss 




351 



Hooker, Mr, 
Nancy 
Orpha 
Phoebe 
Rachel 



317 

314,318 

314 

318 

300,313 



Rachel Elizabeth 315 

Richard 66,121,151,279 

283,299,300,313,312,314 

315,317,318,319,320 

Richard (J. P.) 320 

Richard(Bachelor)313,315 

Richard of Turkey R. 315 

316,317.318 

Hooker, Richard Jr. 312,315 

318 

Richard Sr. 33,315 

Richard & Martha 315 

Richard & Nancy 3l8 

Richard & Phoebe 314 

Ruth 312 

Samantha 3l4 

Samuel 151,279,312,313 

314,315 

Samuel Jr. 313,314 

Samuel Sr. 278,313,315 

Samuel Henry 3l4 

Samuel L. 3l4 

Sarah 312,314 

Susan 312 

Tallman 3l8 

Thomas 312 

Turkey Run 315 

Wm. Henry 3l4 

Rev. Jacob 168 

Hoover, Jacob 398 

Hopwood, Vftn. 407 

Horton, V.B. 4l8 

Hon. V.B. 235 

Hoshor, W. 153 

Hoskinson, Mr. 4l4 

House, Allen 85,139 

Houston, Archibald 265 

Howe 65,250,374 

Mark 65,87 

Samuel L. 65,87 

Howell, Bertha B. 302 

Hubbart, Ephram 407 

Huber, D. l42 

David 37,141,142,200,209 

Eugene 325 

George I5I 



Huber, Henry 

Horace 

Jacob 

John 

Miss 

Mrs. 

Taylor 

W.H. 
Huddle, Daniel 

Henry 

Sarah 

Samuel 
Huber, Philip 



351 
151,324 
199 
325 
199 
146 
162 
340 
201 
250,256 
200 
201 
324,325 



Hufford, Mrs. Daniel 397 

Miss Dorcas 396 

Elizabeth 399 

Hannah 397 

John 397 

Miss 199 

Hull, Benjamin 341,342 

Catharine 203,341 

F.C. 342 

Hull, Gen. 352 

Mrs . 342 

Robert L. 341 

Robert S. 34l 

Sarah A. 340,341 

Hummel, Dr. 261 

Humrighous, Henry 125 

Irvin 125 

John 125 

John W. 125 

Jno. 125 

Lewis 125 

Mary Ann 125 

Huns acker, Jacob 395 

Miss 399 

Hunter 182 

Amos 52,64,86 

Andrew 86,l6l 

Capt. 35 

Elmer 64 

Frank 64 

Col. H.B. 84 

Hocking H. 69,79 
H.H. 52,57,58,66 
84,98,152,358 
Hocking H. 33,41,156,161 
James 64,105, 153, 161 

Joseph 32,43 

Capt. Joseph 40 



Hunter, Judge 






96 


Irvin, Dr. WilliEm 


31,62 


Samuel 






33 


Wllllsm W. 


54 


Huntwork, George 






113 


William W. 


31,33 


Jacob 






153 


W.W. 


33,54,55 


John 






109 


Isett, Mrs. 


339 


Hurst, Rev. 






398 






Hustand, W. 






102 


Jackson, Andrew 


356 


Huston 




402 


,403 


Gen. Andrew 


363 


Alexander 






257 


Catharine 


411 


Jonathan 






324 


General 


167,168 


Susan 






322 


John D. 


83 


Mr. Will 






414 


John J. 


252 


Hutchins, Rebecca J. 




318 


Miss 


200 


Hutchins 






8 


Samuel 


200 


Thomas 






7 


Jacobs, Jeremiah 


297 


Hutchinson, Willi 


.am 




134 


William 


83 


Hut ton, John 






151 


James, C.W, 


418 


William 






151 


Jamison, John 


365 


Hyde, Dr. 125, 


132, 


,137 


,37'^ 


Jan, Kryn 


335 


Eber 




135 


,136 


Jefferies, Joseph 


297 


Joseph K. 






136 


Jefferson 


68 


Rodney 






136 


Jeffries, Ewel 


181 


Simon 






162 


James 


391 


Dr. Simon 


135, 


.134 


,160 


W.L. 


86 


Solon 






136 


Jenkins, William 


151 


Dr. William 




136 


,137 


Johnson, Andrew 


418 


Huston, Miss Clara 




403 


Asa 


195 










Benjamin 


248 


IJams 






229 


Clay 


350 


Frederick 






251 


Edward 


195 


Howard 






251 


Major 


57 


Isaac 101, 


250, 


,251 


,252 


Mrs. 


240 


John 






251 


Perley B. 


365 


Joseph 101, 


251, 


,118 


,119 


Richard M. 


364 


Joseph & Brothers 


241 


Johnson, VJilliam 


407 


Joseph H.116, 


117. 


,118 


,119 


Joise, Mrs. Teresa 


343 


Richard 






251 


Jones, David 


153 


Thomas 33, 


.250. 


,251 


,252 


Rev. David I8I, 182,85 


William 






251 


John A. 


85 


W.H. 






82 


Julian, Mr. 


359 


William 




249,248 


Eran 


85 


lies, Jacob 






153 


Isaac 


384 


Ingman, Henry 






151 


L.P. 


153 


Miss 




190 


,350 


P.S. 


83 


Irvin, Mr. 






161 






Edward 






407 


Kagay, Miss Lillie 


413 


John 






151 


Kagy 


225 


Josie 






413 


Kagys 


216,217 


Judge 55,65,78.125,375 


Kagy Family 


216 






355 


,356 


Aaron 


212,218 


Col. William 






78 


Abigail 

Abraham 221 


218 
,223,224 



Kagy, Abraham B. 




220 


Kagy, Nettie T. 






226 


Anna 




223 


Rebecca 


211, 


,218 


,220 


Barbara 


221 


,223,224 


Rudolph 217, 


,221, 


,222 


.223 






225,226 


224,225. 


,226, 


,227 


,228 


Benjamin P. 




220 


Rudolph Jr. 






224 


Catharine 




221,223 


Samuel 






221 


C.E. 




395 


Susan 






221 


C.P. 




410 


Tunis A. 






218 


Christian 


217 


,219,220 


Kanode, Hezekiah 






224 


221,222, 


,223 


,224,228 


Kauffman 




44,46 


Christian Jr, 




221 


Dr. 






46 


Christian Sr, 




221 


Elizabeth 






397 


Christian C. 




226,228 


George 


I 


+6,36,85 


Christian K. 




227 


Karshner, John 






371 


Christian R. 




225,226 


Kauffman, Rev. Martii 


1 


109 






227,228 


Kechler, Mr. 






204 


C.R. 




225 


Keith, A.H. 






32 


Daniel Hall 




220 


Judge 






33 


David 




222,226 


Kellers 






213 


Elizabeth220, 


,221 


,222,224 


Keller, Capt. A.R. 




179 


Francis 




219 


Augustus R. 






237 


Franklin 


226 


,227,228 


Augustus Ruffner 




236 


Frederick 




226,227 


Catharine 






236 


Hannah 




221,223 


Daniel l4l, 


.234 


.235 


,247 


Hannah Siple 




224 






352 


,353 


Harrison B. 




227 


Hon. Daniel 


198.385,389 


Henry 


221 


,224,225 


Mrs. Daniel 






118 


Isaac 




224,225 


David 






178 


James Josiah 




226 


David Pence 






235 


Jacob l84, 


,220 


,221,222 


D.P. 




178 


.235 




223 


,224,225 


Emanuel 






235 


Dr. John 




222 


Joseph 






235 


Jerretha 




224,225 


Laura 






236 


John 221,222, 


,224 


,225,226 
227,228 


Martha A. 
Miss 






236 
198 


John Benjamin 


222 


Simson 






235 


John Henry 




228 


Sophia 






236 


John Kite 




222 


Susan 






236 


John M. 




218 


Kellerman, Daniel 




350 


Laura C. 




218 


Daniel R. 






208 


L.B. 




217,218 


Dora 






350 


Levi D. 




222 


Dory 






208 


Kagy, Lewis 


212 


,224,225 


Prof. 






208 


Lewis B. 




217,218 


Kelley, Miss Rhoda E 




113 


Lewis Hite 




222 


Kelley, Rachael 






330 


Levi M. 




222,226 


Kelsey 






241 


Maggie Ann 




227 


Daniel 






241 


Dr. Martin 




221,224 


Mrs. Ellen 






240 


Mary 


218 


,221,224 


Kemerer, Em'l. 






151 


Melnotte 




227 


Mrs . Madison 






369 


Mrs. 




212 


Kemp, Bros. 






204 



Kemp, Elizabeth 


348 


Kneisley, H„J. 




346 


Kemper, Asa 


239 


Knisely, H.J. 




349 


Mrs. Elijah 


253 


Kolb, Mrs. Phoebe 




399 


Rev. James P, 


239 


Kooken, W.H. 




386 


Rev. J. P. 


238 


Kocntz 


41,160 


,161 


Kennedy, L'.ughlin 


117 


Koontz, Dr. 




339 


Gen. Robert P. 


16 


S.C. 




155 


Samuel 


^13 


Kraemer, Otto 




85 


Kerns , Abner 


153 


Kr-^ner, Anna M. 




244 


Isaac 151; 


.157.382 


Ella (Romes) 




261 


Keller, Simon P. 


151 


Emanuel 




233 


Kerns, Miss Siistn 


95 


Mrs. Emanuel 




209 


Kr.rr, Eud 


134 


Joseph 




233 


Hev. 


270 


Philip H. 




85 


Br. V/illiym 


61 


Susan 




233 


Keoter, Mrs. George 


309 


Thomas 




232 


Key, Mr. 


257 


Kratzer, Samuel 




30 


Klgex's 


318 


Kreider 




125 


Kiger, Anna 


350 


E.G. 


151,154 


Sarah 


35c 


Dr. M.Z. 62,69,85,88 


,123 


Kilbourne 


6a 


Kremer, Eva 




330 


Killits, Mrs. A.W. 


290 


Kuhn, George 




412 


Klndler, Amanda 


415 


Mrs. Matilda 




396 


King 


138 


Kutz, D. 




142 


Kin^s 


47 


Daniel 


86 


,141 


Kina, Belle 


412 


Kutz & Reber 




37 


Christian 44,6^,29^^,382 


Kuqua, William 




83 


Court 


412 


Kyner, David 




50 


David 


365 


Kynett, Dr. 




168 


Dr. 


46 








Frank 


412 


Lafere, Mary Ann 




354 


John C. 


407 


Lamb 




249 


Karl 


412 


Frederick 




144 


Mason 


41? 


Geo:fge 




190 


Mrs . Mason 


396 


George W. 




309 


Matilda 


413 


Irvin 




309 


Mrs. 


238 


John 


131 


,309 


Nancy 


330 


Mary 




235 


Tcny 


412 


Noah 




309 


William 


44 


Peter 


235 


.309 


Kinkeau & Doty 


388 


Polly 




309 


Kinkead, Joseph 0.84 


,143,338 


Philip Jr. 




309 


William 


86 


Philip Sr. 




309 


Kinnen, Mrs. John 


402 


Thomas 




83 


Kirker, Thomas 


33 


William 


116,118 


,237 


Kirn, C.P. 


87 


Laiiiberton, France 


s Ann 


222 


Kistler, Aaron 


274 


La;nbrecht, Daniel 




407 


Reuben 


151 


Landis 


162 


,376 


Klotts, Samuel R. 


12 


John 




339 


Knabenshue, Joseph 


103 


Martin 




376 


Samuel 


103 


Martin Sr. 




101 



Lane, Button 


315 


Miss Nettie 


358 


W. 


120 


Wilkinson 


120 


Langle, Daniel 


528 


Henry 


528 


Lantz, George 


138 


Philip 


50 


Larimer 


286,355 


Larimers 


101 


Larimer, Chaney 


552 


Ebenezer 


552 



Larimer, Elizabeth 245,555 

Isaac 19if, 2*13,352, 355 

Isaac Sr. 552 

James 552 

John 2l^-5,552 

Joseph 352 

Phoebe 352 

Rebecca 201,21+5,555 

Robert 552 

William 245 

Wright 194,245,552 

Latta 70 

Latta Family 72 

Latta & Connell 47 

Latta, Effla 72,74 

Elizabeth 75 

James White 75 

John 72 

Katharine 75 

Mrs. E.T. 75 

Jane 72,74 

John 45,62,75 

Mrs. John 62 

John & Effia 75 

Morton Brazee 75 

William 45,72,75,74,86 

Wm. & Elizabeth T. 72,75 

Laws, James 169 

Leach, Elizabeth A. 275 

Leathers 582 

Frederick 384 

Leckrone, Catherine 198 

Matthew 597 

Lee, Wm. 510 

Lefever, H.C, I5I 

Lehman, Chris. 86 

Elizabeth 245 

Henry 547 

Nancy 4l2 



Leib 244,245,196 

A.D. 388 

Amos 387 

Amos D. 388 

Amos Davis 590,591 

Barbara 588 

Benjamin 587 

Catharine 588 

Daniel 587 

David 586.587 
Elias 586,587,590,591 

Elias Newton 590 

Elizabeth 588 

Hamilton 586 

Henry 587 

Henry F. 390 

H.P. 590 

James 587 

Leib, Jane 587 

Enos 587 

John 586,387 

Capt. John 587 

Joseph 238,385,586 
587,588 

Joseph & Wife 586 

Joseph Jr. 385,386,590 
591 

Joseph Jr. & Wife 590 

Joseph Sr. 242,247,589 

Joseph H.C. 590 

Margaret 588 

Mary 588 

Samuel 386 

Samuel P. 389 

Susan ?88 

Leiby, Mrs. Wm. 251 

Lelst 206 

Leists 213 

Leist, Rev, Jacob 104 

John 35,104,128 

M.A. 582 

Leith 8 

George W. I80 

John 179,185 

Mrs. Nettie 409 

Leonard Bros . 108 

Rev. George 108 

Henry 108,109 

Judge 85 

Sebastian 107,108 

Sebastian Sr. 108 

Leslie, Barbara 387 



Levering 


105 


,159 


Lynch, Gen. 36,48,100 


Mary 




27U. 


Jonathan 


36 


Lewis, Dr. 




133 


Gen. Jonathan 


40,43 


Mrs. Dr. 135 


,136,409 




48,100 


Ed 




151 


Levi 


41 


E.E. 




153 


Wm. 


359 


Elijah 




86 


Lynn, Joseph 


274 


John 




133 


Lyons , John 


86 


Dr. J.W. 




84 


Lord 


79 


Mrs . Mary 




136 


Mrs. M.A. 


295 


Prlscllla 




418 


Wm. 


79 


Tllman 




34 


Lytle, James 


382 


W.B. 


133 


,134 






William B. 




195 


Maccracken, Gen. 


85,108 


Lightnecher, Mrs. 




307 


J.C. 


84 


Lilly, Mr. 




76 


John 


86 


Lincoln 


384,i+l8 


Samuel F. 


45.69 


Abraham 90,9? 


.1^5 


,170 


S.F. 45,53,66 




282 


,293 


Mackerly, Benjamin 


276 


Ann 




282 


Macklln, Dewalt 


101 


Pres. 


92 


,401 


Madden, John 


350 


John 




282 


Magoon, Augustus 


288 


Llndly, Charles 




417 


Mahew, Alexander 


365 


Linton, Miss 




196 


Mains, Mr. 


388 


Linvllle, Solomon 




250 


Mall on, Wm. 


83 


Little, George 




314 


Manley, Mrs. John S. 


253 


Henry 




84 


Manly, John 


249,252 


J.N. 




86 


Mansfield, & Kelley 


134 


Nick 




348 


Manson, Amanda 


359 


Lobenthall, Llppen 




85 


Sallie 


314 


Lockart, Thomas 




151 


Markwood, Mr. 


359 


Long , V/m . 




121 


Martin, Capt. Absalom 


12 


Longs 




19 


Martin, CD. 


210 


Longfellow 




98 


Ebenezer 


11 


Loofberrys 




248 


Elizabeth Brandt 


366 


Love, Mr. & Mrs. V/m. 




409 


Evi 


151 


Love land 


102 


,248 


G.W. 


86 


Joseph 


35,36 


Jane 


288 


Loveland & Smith 




103 


John 


407 


Lowe, Gov. 




122 


John D. 114,118 


,254,85 


Lowry, Jane 


l80 


,183 


Ruth 


308 


Lowry, Sallie 


179 


,183 


Samuel 


151 


Luckey, Mrs. G.W. 




261 


V/illiam 


352 


Ludwick, Cath serine 




331 


Mast, Isaac 


196 


Lusk, Ida A. 




332 


Jacob 


230 


Luther, Martin 




326 


Mr. & Mrs. Wm. 


409 


Lutz, Miss 




398 


Matlack, John 


52,85 


Mrs . Mason 




396 


Mrs. (nee Pearse) 


142 


Lydy, Miss 




314 




254,338 


S. 




314 


Samuel 


52 


Lyle, Aaron 




151 


Matthews, Rev. Henry 


320 



Ilabthews, John 


l|5 McColloch, John 


10 


Mauk, Eliza 


218 Noah Zane 


15 


Maxwell, Mr. 


195 Samuel 


10 


Mauger, Fred 


392 Samuel (another) 


15 


May, John 


160 Samuel Jr. 


15 


Mayne, Dr. 


138 Wm. 


15 


Dr. Washington 


138 McCormick, Absalom 


198 


McCabe, Df-niel 


49 Mr. 


181 


S. 


84 McCowan, Etma Eliaa 


302 


Sosthenes 


49 McCracken 


47,125 


Win. 


49 James C. 


46 


McCalls 


273 Samuel F. 


299 


McCall, Mrs. 


272 Gen. Samuel F. 


96 


Priscilla 


272 McOrea, W.W. 


272 


Rachel Wells 


272 McCullochs 


19 



Richard Reeves 272,270 

Thomas 272,276 

Thomas (J. P.) 3l6 

McCandish, Georgel98, 227,404 

Lee 404 

Ruth 404 

Mrs. W.C. 246 

McCandlish, Mary A, 

McCarty I52 

McCleery 158,277,280,295 

Amanda 274 

Anna 28l 

Chax-les W. 274 

Honora 276 

James 80,151,274,276 

JaiTies II 280,281 

James III 28o 

John 281 

Joseph 280,281 

Lizzie Jennetta 275 

Lucre ti a 274 

Maria 272,281 

Miss 276 

McCleery, Samuel 274 

Sarah 272 

Theodore 274 

Wm. 177,272,28c 

Wm. Wells 274 

McClelland, Alexander 371 

John 50,86 

Margaret 285 

R. 182 

Robert 49,182,407 

McClungs 101 

McClung, VJm. 101 

McColloch, Elizabeth 10 

Abraham 10 

George 10 



McCulloch, Frank I5 

McDonald, Ann 203 

Walter 52,86 

McDougal, Miss Betty 404 

McDcwel, Judge 33 

McDowell, John 272 

John A. 32 

McEwen, Jane 70 

McPadden, Gilbert 133 

McFarland 235,236 

Elizabeth 345 

J.C. 178 

John 151,178 

John C. 287 

Robert 82 

w. 178 

Walter 102,178,306 
345,406 

Wm. 406 

McFee, Homer 131 

Mrs. (nee Ealcer) 131 

Wllber 131 

McGee, Peter 215 

Thomas 162 

Mclntire 20 

Amelia 26 

John 9,12,23,21,24,25 
26,27,28,40,170 

Mr. & Mrs. 23,24 
Mclntire, Mrs, John (widow) 170 

Mrs. 26,27,28 

Sarah 16,23,170 
McKee, Mr 3. I80 

McKendry, Bishop 252 
McKinley, Mrs. 193 

Mrs. Pres. 193 

Mc Lain (McLean) Col Alexander 

258,267 



McLaln, Col. 
McLaughlin, Mr. 
McLean, Alexander 

Col. Alexander 

John 
McMahon, John 
McManamy, James 

Tole 
McMullen, Peter 
McNaghten 

Alexander 

Arab a 

Amelia 

Cynthia 

David 

Elizabeth 

Harrison 

Hiram 

James 

James M. 

Jane 



John 

John S, 

John Sr. 

Mary 

Miss 

Neal 

Noah 

Owen 

Rebecca 

Thomas 



268 

14 

268 

267 

268 

63 

86 

51 

159 

182 

183 

184 

216 

184 

184 

183 

184 

184,230 

183 

184 

183,184 

180,183,185 

184 

183 

183 

230 

183 

184 

184,234 

184 

182,183,184,342 



Thomas J. 

Tunis 
McNamee, Adam 

George 

Job 

Job Sr. 

Mary 

Moses 

Thomas 
Mc Naught en, David 

Mrs. Noah 

Mrs . Thomas 
McNeil, Catharine 

Dr. 
McNeill, Corbin 

J.B. 

Jno. B. 

Robert 

Dr. Robert 
McVeigh, Col. A. 



184 
184 
131 
131 
131 
131 
130 
131 
131 
212 
208 
209 
300 

96 
153 

94 

86 

151 

62,69,151 

86 



402 
304 
304 



307 



305 
304,305 



McVeigh, Alfred 

Col. 

Dallas 

Joseph 

Mary 

Nellie 

Samuel 
Meason 
Meason Family 

Mrs . Anna 

Anne 

Annie Miranda 

Dorsey 

Elijah 

Elijah E. 305,306 

Elizabeth 304 

Mrs. Elizabeth 

Enoch 

Francis 

Felix N 

George 

George A. 

Dr. George P. 

George W. 

George Wesley 

Hannah 

Hiram 

Isaac 102,153,304 
306,307,308 

Isaac Jercme 

Isaac Whatcoat 305 

Jeremiah 

John 301,304,305 
307,309 

Col. John 304 

Mrs . John 

John & Hannah (Frost) 

John & Hannah M. 

Joseph 

Dr. Leonldas 

Martha 

Mary 304 

Nancy 301,304 

Nancy Miranda 

Rachel 304 

Mrs . Rachel 

Ralph 

Sallle E. 310 

Sallie Elizabeth 

Sarah 

Samuel 



123 

291 

402 

402 

402 

402 

,403 

,102 

,309 

305 

304 

306 

,306 

153 

,307 

,308 

304 

305 

,307 

307 

,306 

307 

307 

307 

305 

304 

305 

,305 

,355 

306 

,307 

305 

,306 

.310 

.307 

266 

308 

308 

304 

307 

304 

,306 

,306 

305 

,306 

305 

305 

,311 

306 

304 

304 



Meason, Thcmas 




304 


Miller, Jas. 


151 


Thomas Sr. 




304 


Jerry 


37 


Medary, Samuel 




372 


Joab 


151 


Medlll, Gov. 96,255,370,372 


John 85 


,101,415 






373 


John C. 


151 


Wm. 59,69,236,36^+ 


Mrs. John E. 


201 


Medill, Col . Wm. 




356 


Jonathan 


15^ 


Gov. Vfm. 


85,236 


Joseph 


101,309 


Meek, Annie 




305 


Joseph & Wife 


192,193 


Jeremiah & Sarah 




308 


Louisa 


327 


Meeker, Mrs. Eliza 




127 


Mathias 


118,303 


Mrs. (nee Allen) 




121 


M.C. 


386 


Meeks, John 




306 


Miller, Michael 


387 


Joshua 




102 


Miss 204 


,233,261 


Mehorter, H.C. 




83 


Phoebe 


224 


Melick, Alfred 




251 


Rechel 


192,410 


Merchant, C. 




104 


Miller & Retzel 


47 


Henry Clay 




298 


Richard 


82 


Merchant & Myron 




216 


T. Ewing 


77 


Merchant, Gen. Solomon 


298 


W.B. 


151 


Meredith, Mrs .VirglnlJ 


1 C. 


298 


Milligan, Lamsden P. 


170 


Mericle, Sarah 




398 


Milligen, Moses A. 


170 


Merrill, S.M. 




169 


Mills, Ezekiel 


12 


Merwin, E.B. 33,41^,55 


,125 


Milton 


176 


Meyers, Lewis 




153 


Mineer, Rev. Solomon 


320 


Ziba E. 




219 


Miner, Dr. 


123.124 


Miers, Henry 




84 


Dr. E.L. 


124,125 


Henry Sr. 




48 


Minter, Margaretta 


273 


James 




85 


Mitchell, Dr. E.W. 


274 


Mlesse, Mahala 




327 


Rev. James 


274 


Solomon 




327 


Matthew 


87 


Mlley, Abram 




365 


Mithoff 87,48,314 


Millers 


217 


,376 


Augustus 


84 


Miller, Abraham 




400 


Theodore 


84 


Alexander 




328 


M'Neill, John B. 


94 


Dr. A. P. 




210 


Moeller, Ferdinand 


12 


Rev, Barnett 




275 


Monmouth, Dike of 


284 


Ben J ami n 




232 


Monroe, Father 


159 


Miss Catharine 


192 


.197 


Montgomery 


130 






292 


Moody, Col. G. 


169 


Charles 




86 


Moore, John 


164 


Christopher S. 




365 


Levi 100^ 


,104,151 


Daniel 




309 


Moore & Orrin 


205 


David 


245,327 


Moore, Thomas 


162 


D.B. 




83 


Moreheart, Anna 


346 


Dr. 




85 


Christian 


103 


Elizabeth 


192 


,310 


Morgan, Aaron & Wife 


416 


George 




233 


John 


281,295 


Gerhard 




86 


Morris, James 


407 


Henry 




77 


Thomas A. 


169 


H.G. 




178 


Rev. Thomas A. 


300 


Mrs. Jacob 




375 







Morrison, A. 


340 


Mrs. R. 


254 


Morrow, Jeremiah 


68 


Mary Ann 


259 


Morton, Andrew 


7 


Mounts, Florence 


Edith 302 


Rebecca 


300 


Mowery, Mrs. 


399 


Moyer, Abraham 


317 


Miss Belle 


Ull 


Catharine 


413 


Clinton 


U02 


Dorothy 


402 


Edward 


411,415 


Ethel 


412 


George 


401 



Jacob 195,245,411 

Mrs. Jacob 192 

Jennie 411 

Mrs. Jerrie 396,412 

Moyer, John 245,411 

J.W. 412 

Laura 412 

Lizzie 411 

Miss Llewellyn 412 

Lydia 412 

Margaret 4l2 

Mary 412 

Miss Myrtle 405 

Myrtle 4l2 

Sadie 4ll 

Thomas 4ll 

Thomas 245 

Ursia 401 

Mueller, Catharine 361 

Mumaugh, J.R. 84 

Mumaw, Andrew 399 

Clara 399 

Dr. H.A. 399 

Murpheys 229,259 

Murphey Family 252,253,257 

Achsa 256 

Althea 256 

Asa 255 

Mrs. Asa 253,254 

Belinda 254 

Basil 256 

Benjamin 105,253 

Ed 249 , 254 

Edward 105,249,252 
254,255,257 



Murphey, Edward & Wife 256 
Edward N. 255 

Eliza 254 

Elizabeth 238,255 
256,257 
P. A. 255 

Henry 255 

John 35,101,249,250,252 
255,257,407 
John & Wife 256 
Rev. John 238,253 
Rev. John & Esther 255 
Linda 256 

Lydia 257 

Nancy 245,254 

Nelly 256 

Pierson E. 255 

Rachel 254,257 

Sarah 249.254 

Theodore 238,255,257 
Theodore & Wife 256 
Mrs. Theodore 255 
William 105,171,172,175 
253,254.256,259.345 
Mrs. Wm. 307 

William Jr. 253 
Vailiam Sr. 105,267 
Wilson 254 

Murphy 161 

Murphys 217 

Murphy, Billy 175 

Eliza 338 

Hester 254 

John 237,2^9.253,255 
William 249,338,340 
Wm. Sr. 253 

Murry, Ellen 125 

Musser, Andrew J. 349 
Andrew Jackson 346 
David 244 

Elizabeth 197 

Henry 131 

Laura 4l4 

Mary 197 

Rebecca R. 244 

Myers, Dora 404 

Ella 327 

Miss Jane 396 

Michael 327 

Miss 77 



Naginey, Emma 


401 


Olds, Dr. E.B. 


84 


Miss Eura 


i|01 


Old Shady 


93 


Ida 


401 


Oren, Jesse 


153 


John 


401 


Orman, Henry 5] 


-,96.151 


Lewellyn 


401 


Orndorf, Margaret 


243 


Llllle 


401 


Orndorff, George 


195 


Samuel 


401 


Orr, Miss 


114 


Napoleon 


21 


Thomas 


63 


Neel, Alfred 


307 


Ortman, Simon 


159 


Henry 


307 


Orton, John B. 


33 


John 


306,307 


Osborn, Joseph 


247 


Neeley, Clarissa 


414 


Osborne, Miss 


203 


Neely 


193 


Osenbaugh, Catherine 


332 


Neibllng, C. 


49 


Oswald 


53 


Mrs. Christian 


281 


Otis, George 


350 


Nell, Moore & Co. 


60 


Owens 


130,131 


Neil, Mrs. 


298 


Hiram 


358 


Newkirk, Michael 


154 


Owings & Thompson 


47 


Newman, Walter 


407 






Wesley 


64 


Paden, Robert 


251 


Nigh, Ellas 


152 


Thomas 


161,388 


Jared 


153 


Page, Arminda J. 


226 


Nlsley, A. 


153 


Palmer, Mrs .Augustine 


397 


Noble, Col. 


139 


D. 


151 


Henry C. 


50 


Panebaker, Abraham 


330 


Henry Clay 


147 


Catharine 


330 


Col. John 1^9.50,52,60 


Daniel 


330 


65,75,1*^6,260 


.285,299 


Elizabeth 


330 


Col. Jno. 


86 


Eva 


330 


John W. Itf5,l46,50 


George 


330 


Col. John W. 


383 


Hannah 


330 


Secretary 


75 


John Jr. 


330 


Noble & Browning 


^1 


John Sr. 


330 


Nordyke & Marmon Co. 


103 


Mary 


330 


Norris 


114 


Rachel 


330 


Norton, Mary 


2m 


Rosan 


330 


Nourse, Dr. 


251 


Rosannah 


330 


Charles 


251 


Samuel 


330 


Dr. J.D. 


85 


Susan 


330 


Joseph G. 


134,151 


William 


330 


Nunemaker, Andrew 


298 


Parishes 


391 


Charles 


398 


Parker, Joseph 


38 


William 


" 398 


Joseph R. 


85 


Nye, Michael 


104 


Parker, Judge 


88 


Nyes 


139 


Parr, Mary E. 


418 






Parsons, Joel A. 


64 


Oatley, Miss Jennie 


398 


Partridge, Sarah 


126 


Odell, Elizabeth 


349 


Paul , Dr . 


123,125 


O'Gara, M. 


86 


Truman E. 


153 


Oglesby, Miss 


199 


VJllliam 


83 


Gen. Richard 


145 


Paxton, James 


412 






Pealt 


32 



Pealt, Susan 


32 


Pence, Mary 


232 


Pearse, Andrew 


339 


Mrs. 


362 


Catharine 


343 


Philip 


365 


Daniel 


336 


Rebecca 


232 


Frank 


338,339 


Seville 


232 


James 


337,338 


Sophia 


233 


James & Rebecca 


3t^3 


Penn, William 10 


,282,296,297 


James W, 


141,142 


Pennington, Mr. 


89 


Mrs. James W. 


345 


Peppers, Wm. 


297 


James VJilson 


254,338 


Perkey, Mary Ann 


219 


James Wilson Jr. 


338 


Perrin, Mrs. Charles 246 


Jerry 


339 


Perry, Alvah 


85 


John 


86,331 


Mrs. Alvah 


177 


John V. 


338 


Capt. 


390 


Major John V. 


294 


Horace 


151 


John VanMetre 


337,338 


Judge 


85 


Joseph 


339 


O.H. 


86,151 


Josina 


343 


Peters 


213,216,317 


Lewis 


338 


Peters Pamilyl83, 185,205,214 


Mrs. Lewis 


343,345 


Abigail 


206,208,216 


Mrs. 


338 


Absalom 


208,216 


Priscilla 


343 


Alice 


324 


Rebecca 


343 


Amelia 


207.216 


Salem 


339 


Amlia 


208 


Van 


338 


Andrew 


146,187,191 


Wm . 


254,338 


Rev. C. 


86 


Peck 


125.257 


Charles 


191 


¥m. B. 


48 


Peters Dash Co. 


216 


Peddicord, Mrs. 


256 


Deborah 


205,208.216 


Pence 


362,416 


Dr. 


133 


Aaron 


232 


Ebenezer 


187,188,205 


Adam 


365 




302,350 


Anna 


208 


Frank 19O 


,191,288,324 


Annie 


232 


Mrs. Franclna(Tunis) 2l4 


Barbara 


366 


George 


190,206 


Mrs. Barbara 


362 


Gershom 205 


,208,214,216 


Barbara Brandt 


366 


Gideon 


187,188,189 


David 118,151 


,154,163 


Henry 185,187.188,190 


205,232,235 


,249,208 


Henry W. 


153 


D. Jr. 


233 


Henry Will 


190 


David Jr. 


233 


Irwin 


188 


Elenor 


232 


Jacob 


185 


Elizabeth 


232 


James 


190,216 


Emanuel Ruffner 


234 


Rev. James 


208 


Henry 275 


.365,366 


Jas. W. 


153 


Isaac 


362 


John 185,191, 


,208,216,324 


Jacob 


362,365 


John W. 


190 


Jacob Sr. 


362 


Jonathan 


184,208,216 


Pence, Mrs. Jacob 


361,369 




214,215.205 


Jacob & Wife 


362 


Jonathan Jr. 


205 


Joseph 


232,365 


Jonathan&Martha (Thompson) 








214 



Peters, Judge 




189 


Pcmeroy, E.G. 


^9 


Judge G. 




210 


Poorman, Daniel 


151 


Katy 




208,216 


Henry H. 


153 


Peters, Lewis 


133,187,188 


Pope, Mrs. D. 


266 






189 


Elizabeth 


388 


Rev. Mahlon 




208 


Porter, Samuel 


196 


Mary 




215 


Potter, Wm. 


418 


Milton 


191 


,317,32i| 


Pownall 


7 


Mr. 




187 


Prater, Enos 


351 


Mrs. (nee Coulson) l86 


Rhoda 


348 






215,286 


Pratt, P.H. 


153 


Nancy 




216 


Pratt, G.W. 


85 


Nathan 




286 


James M. 53; 


,122,359 


Newton 


I5I; 


,191,302 


J.M. 


85 


Norman 




286 


Mr. 


340 


Orrln 




205 


Pratt & Thorne 


375 


Parmella 




216 


Prentice, Elias 


50 


Philip 




215.216 


Prentiss, Gen. 


177 


R.J. 




191 


Priest, Wm. 


407 


Robinson 




191,205 


Prindle 


161,344 


Robinson J. 


187: 


,190,286 


Elizabeth 


302 


Sallie 




190 


Myron 


302 


Sam'l. 




191 


Pugh, Barbara 


223 


Samuel 120 


,129,183.185 


Byron M. 


110,254 


190,192 


,216 


,286,325 


Ella Dora 


227 






350,383 


Hattie Florence 


227 


Sam G. 




15^ 


Henrietta 


230 


Samuel Sr. 




185 


Jas. 


153 


S.R. 




189 


John 


254 


Silas 




190 


Reese 


400 


Hon. S.R. 




189 


Thomas 


157 


Stephen 




286 


Thomas A. 


227 


Stevenson 




187,188 


John Williams 


227 


Tunis 


208. 


,214,215 


Puller, Mrs. Elmira 


409 


Tunis Jr. 




216 


Purs ell, Wm. 


85 


Rev. Tunis 


35 


,214,216 


Putnam, Wm. R. 


365 


Tunis Sr. 




216 


Phelan, Mrs. Wm. 


77 


Wesley 




187,190 


Philbrick, Prank 


350 


Dr. Wesley 




190 


Philip 


252 


Will 




191 


Philllppl, Louis 


21,28 


Wilson 




151 


Phillips, Reuben 


230 


Dr. W.L. 




189 


Piatt, James J. 


39*^ 


Zebulon 


151, 


,190,191 


Pickens, Mr. 


313 


Plttsford, Reed 


& c< 


3. 119 


Pickerings 


272 


Plout, Jacob 




86 


Pickering, Abraham 


102,355 


Mary Elizabeth 


332 


Charles 


264 


Plummer 




130 


Jacob 


355 


Moses 




248 


James 261 


,262,264 


Poff, Joseph 




330 


Lt. Lafayette 


162 


Poling, Mr. 




399 


Pierce, Sarah A. 


301 


Polk 




59 


Pitcher, Judge Abram 


117 



!her, Rudolph ' 


+5,44,49 


;sford 


216 


John 


215 


Martha 


215 


Mrs. 


216 



Qulnn, Rev. James 42,54,65 

167,178,163,249,252,5^ 

Dr. Win. M.P. II6 

Radabaugh, John 343 

Radebaugh. John 151,4-1 8 

Joel 86,257 

Randolph Foster 257 

Samuel 369 

Rader, John 199 

Miss 199 

Rainey, Charles P. 85 

John C. 86 

Randall, Samuel 102 

Rank, David 276,277 

Mrs. David 28l 

Rankin, Dr. 196,243 

Florence 196 

Grace 196 

Kate 196 

Nellie 196 

Viola 196 

Dr. J.L. 12 

Miss 302 

Rawlings, Wm. A.W. II5 

Ray, Mr. A. 194 

Esther 195 

Samuel 19^+ 

Ream,Reahm,Riehm & Reeme 33'* 

Ream 329,378 

Ream Family 328,329 

Ream, Abraham 100,328,329 

331,332,377 

Abraham Sr. 333,334 

Absalom 330 

Absalom Jr. 351 

Absalom Sr. 331 

Adam 330,351 

Barbara 550 

Cadorsus Plantagenet 529 

Clara 332 

Calvin B. 555 

Catherine 355,554 

Daniel 552,555,378,589 

Eli 550 



Ream, Elizabeth 529,550,552 
Ella 535 

Estelle 555 

Florence 329 

Frank C. 555 

George 331,332,333,330 
Mrs . George 335 
George Jr. 552 

George Sr. 532 

George John 335 
Henry 530 

Isaac 555 

Jacob 333,554,407 
John 577 

Jonas A. 329 

Gapt. Jonas A. 329 
Joseph 330 

Joseph Adam 330 
Josiah 330 

Julia 332,333 

Julia Ann 330 

Kate 353 

Lewis 332,333 

Ream, Lewis Melancthon 332 
Louisa 333 

Lydia 330 

Lydla Jane 330 

Maria Barbara 351 
Martha 550 

Mary 329,351,377 
Mary Catherine 332 
Moisten Constantine 329 
Noah A. 330 

Pocohontas 529 

Polly 577 

Rachel 530,331 

Rheem Daniel 377 
Rosan 350,531 

Rosannah 350,533 
Mrs. Rosannah 328 
Rose 333 

Sampson 529,550,334 
Samuel 350,577 

Samuel Sr. 577 

Sarah 550 

Solomon 552 

Ream, Rev. Soldier 555 
Thaddeus Hector 529 
Victoria Grace Arena 529 
Wm. 48 

Wm. Jr. 350 



Ream, Wm. Sr. 


330 


V/irinie R.. 


333 


Reber 


142,156 


Rebers 


213,325 


Reber Family 


kZS 


Dr. 


122 


Mr. 


142,322 


Anna 


324 


Mrs. Belinda 


323 


Charles 


323,351 


Eliza 


128 


Felix 


322 


George 


69,321 



Henry 128,146,154,191 

206,321,323 

Henry Clay 324 

James 323 

John 37,38,84,141,146 

321,322,357 

John B. 320 

John Bernhard 320 

Joseph 146,323 

Judge 146,323 

Reber & Kutz 37,76,357 

Reber, Mary 324 

Mary Ann 125 

Morris 320 

Pauline 324 

Peter 31,43,49,44,63,66 

320,321 

Reber, Samuel 145,323 

Sarah 325 

Thornton 323 

Thomas 125,128,146 

321,322 

Valentine 33,128,146 

191,320,321,322,324 

325,351 

Valentine & Wife 122 

Wm. 323 

Dr. Wm. 322,324 

Reck, Rev. A. 85 

Reeber Family 320 

Reece, David 33 

Reed 44 

Reed Families 557 

Huston 357 

James 357.358 

James S. 264 

John B. 52,85,358 

Miss 35 



Reed, Oliver S. II7 

Robert 86 

Rufus 358,359 

Thomas 86,114 

Mrs. Townsend I78 

Wm. 134,357,358,359 

Mrs. Wm. 359 

Wm. James 357 

Reedy, Conrad 153 

Mary (Polly) 400 

Reefe 362 

Reigle, George Sr. 3l8 

Reinmund, B.F, 86 

Joseph 85 

Renick, Wm. 339 

Rennick, Dennis 303 

Renshaw, David 340,341 

Dr. 341 

Joseph 151 

Rees, David 32 

Reese, Dr. C.E. 294 

David 48 

Gen. David 47 

Dr. 286 

Gen. 53 

Margaret 323 

Miss 267 

Wm. J. 69,114 

Gen. Wm. J. 323,84,146 

Retzel & Miller 47 

Reeves 277 

Cynf- ' a Ann 276 

Johi 315 

Samuel 276 

Samuel Ludwig 26l 

Reynolds, John 407 

Rhodes, Jane Ann 340 

Mary 229 

Susan 230 

Rice, James 86,37*^ 

Michael 406 

Rice & Ring 38 

Wm. P. 37*^ 

Richards, Miss Maude 339 

Wm. 86 

Richie, Mrs. James 101 

Rickets, Chaney 174 

Capt. E. 85 

Ed 102 

Ricketts, Jesse 153 

Chaney 355 



Rife, John 


326 


Rowles, Althea 


239 


Sarah 


326 


Arabella 


238.255 


Rigby, Capt. 


179 


Caroline 


240 


o.w. 


47 


Charles 


196,243 


Wm. 


407 


Charlotte 


238 


Wm. L. 


236 


Christopher 


237 


Rlke, Joseph 


331 


David 


243 


Rev. 


331 


Eli 


233,244 


Rlnehart, Daniel 


225 


Eliza 


237 


Miss 


234 


Elizabeth 


239,254 


Ring. George 50,38,86,374 


Elizabeth A. 


239 


Mary M. 


239 


Emily 


244 


Thomas 


239 


Florence 


240 


Ring & Rice 


38,68 


Isaac 


243 


Wm. 


66 


Jacob 


237 


Rippey, Wm. 


314 


James R. 


240 


Rising, Jonathan 


83 


Jesse 196,231 


,237,238 


Philip 


83,87 


243 


,244,255 


Risler, Wm. 


234 


Jesse A. 


243 


Rissler, Thomas 


408 


Jesse & Elizabeth 238 


Ritchie, G. W. 


133 




241,255 


Gen. Tom 


251 


John 


237,240 


Roberts, Bishop 


252 


John S. 


243,353 


Robinson, John 


250 


John Sr. 


238 


Samuel 


12 


John Murphey 


239 


Roby, Capt. 


259 


Lydia 


238 


Rockey, L.L. 


154 


Mary Ann 


237 


Esq. L.L. 


154 


Mary Ellen 


239 


Rodafer, John 


395 


Mary Jane 


244 


Rodebaugh, Joel 


256 


Mrs. 


245 


Rodehafer, Daniel 


243 


Nicholas 


237 


Rodepouch 


37 


Reuben 


237 


Roe, Annie Sophia 


274 


Mrs. Sarah 


257 


Miss M.J. 


283 


Sarah E. 


244 


Mary Josephine 


273 


Sarah Louisa 


239 


Thomas 


273,277 


Thomas 


243 


Rogers 


113 


Thompson 


242,244 


Dr. 


123,125 


Wm. 195,239 


, 241 , 243 


Samuel 


46 




245,353 


Rokohl, David 


84 


Wm. Sr. 


241 


Christian 


47 


Wm. & Elizabeth 


243 


Roland, Mr. 


256 


Wm. & Wife 


242,243 


Samuel 


151 


Rudolph, Abraham 


329 


Roof, Rev. Joseph 


98.99 


Christian 


46,247 


Mrs. Rev. Joseph 


346 


Christopher 


86 


Rosa, Storm 


365 


Daniel 


329 


Rosecrans, Gen. W.S. 


118 


Delilah 


329 


Ross, Betsy 


297 


Henry 


329 


Rowles, Family 


237 


John 


329 


Rowles 


102,229 


Joseph 


•329 


Adelia 


240 


Margaret 


329 



Rudolph, Peter 




329 


Ruffner, Maria 






230 


Peter Sr. 




329 


Martin 






250 


Rudolph, Polly 




329 


Mary 


230 


,231 


,233 


Sam'l. 




86 


Michael 


116; 


,113 


,114 


Samuel 




329 


117 


.119 


,132 


,250 


Wm. 




329 


Ruffner, M. & Co 






114 


Ruff, George 




396 


Noah 




230 


,237 


James 




288 


Ola 






231 


Ruffner 




408 


Peter 






249 


Ruffners 




213 


Ruffner, Rebecca 




230 


,231 


Ruffner Family 




229 


Sarah 






230 


Abraham 




250 


Stewart 






230 


Ann 




233 


Susan 






234 


Anna 




231 


Thomas 






230 


Barbara 


231 


,232 


Wm. 






230 


Benjamin 


117 


,237 


Ruisdell, C. 






47 


Benjamin Sr. 




237 


Rugh. C. 






173 


B.Sr. 




237 


Christian 






326 


Benjamin S. 


Zk9 


.250 


Elizabeth 






366 


Caleb 




230 


Mary 






326 


Clara 




230 


Solomon 






569 


Col. 




184 


Ruguet, James 






365 


Cynthia 




231 


Runner, F.A. 






153 


Daniel 




237 


Rush, Rachel 






320 


David 117 


.230 


,237 


Russell, Elijah 






407 


David C. 




117 


Robert 






61 


Edward 




230 


Rutherford, C.W. 






154 


Eliza 




231 


Rutter, Mrs. Bal: 


ser 




281 


Elizabeth 




236 


u.c. 






118 


Emanuel 35,101 


,163 


,208 


Uriah C. 






213 


229,230.233,236 


,249 


.406 










Emanuel Jr. 




231 


Sager, Col. Charles 




85 


Emanuel Sr. 


231 


.232 


Col. 






139 


Emeline 




230 


Sain, Jacob 






252 


Emily 


231 


.243 


Mrs. 






209 


Eml 




229 


St. Clair, Arthur 




80 


George 




230 


St. Clair, Gov. J 


\rthur 


40 


Isaac 




230 


St. Clair, Gen. 






249 


Jacob 


230 


.243 


Gov. 




30 


.278 


Jacob Jr. 




230 


Sallee, Frank 






333 


Jacob Sr. 


230 


,231 


Salter, Wm. 






151 


John 


229 


.230 


Judge Wm. 






307 


Jonas 


230 


.243 


Samson, Dr. 






64 


Joseph 




230 


Sant a Anna, Gen. 






139 


Col. Joseph 


117: 


,231 


Sanderson 






125 




249,408 


Alexander 






151 


Kate 




230 


Capt. 


342,352.358 


Levi 




230 


Charles 






403 


Magdalene 




233 


Frank 






403 


Mrs. Magdalene 




236 


Gen. 7. 


,30,52,65,84 


Margaret 




231 




96, 


,102 


.364 



Sanderson, George 


33,47,53 


Seitz, Enoch Beery 202,147 




151,247 


John 


223 


Gen. George 


^^2,53 


Hon. John 


217,223 


Mrs. John 


396 


Lewis 


217,219,223 


St. C. 


151 


Prof. 


148 


Wm. 


403 


Selby, George W. 


32,49 


Sarsher, Phema 


216 


Wm. 


343 


Saxe Weimar, Duke 


68 


Shaeffer 


44,383 


Saxton, James 


193 


Shaeffers 


376 


John 


193.191^ 


Abraham Jr. 


331 


Joseph 


193,194 


Abraham Sr. 


331 


Joshua 


193 


Dr. A.H. 


151 


Mr. 


193 


Charles P. 


151 


Wm. 


193,194 


Daniel 


331 


Sachaeffer & Dietrich 4? 


Delilah 


330 


Schatzer, David 


405 


Edward 


47 


Mrs. Mary 


405 


Eva 


333 


Schisler, Nancy 


330 


P. A. 


49,84 


Schle±ch,Ezra 


123 


Pred A. 


295.296 


John D. 


123 


Pr. W. 


151 


Newton 


151 


Henry 


151 


Col. Newton 


123 


Isaac 


383 


Gen. N. 


85 


Isaac Jr. 


330 


Schlipe, John 


407 


Isaac Sr. 


330 


Schneider, Charles 


86 


Jacob 


49,330,331 


Henry 


154 


Shaeffer, John 


85,141 


John 


153 




151,330 


Schoch, John M. 


357.358 


Joel 


201,331 


J.M. 


357,358 


Judy 


330,331 


Scofield 


48,125 


Margaret 


199 


Elnathan 31,33,45,66 


Miss 


383 


Judge 49,50,65,260 


Nettie 


331 


Mrs. Judge 


44.55 


Mrs. Salem 


375 


Scothern, Mrs . Amrah 


283 


Samuel 


331 


Scott 


5 


Sarah 


330 


Dr. H. 


84,278 


Shaffers 


101,138 


Dr . Harvey 


279 


Shaffer, P. A, 


51,138 


Gen. 


367 


Fred 


140 


Walter 


158 


Shallenbergers 


100 


Rev. Wm. 


152 


Shallenberger 


36 


Gen. Winfield 


88 


David 


36 


Searle, John 


121 


Henry 


36 


Mahitable 


127 


R. 


340 


Searles, John 


85 


Sallie 


36 


Searls, V/m. 


50 


Shane, Adam 


83 


Seeds, James 


153 


Melinda 


412 


Seifert, Mrs. Oscar 


400 


Mrs. 


131 


Seiffert, Caroline 


332 


Shannon, Thomas 


86 


Seitz, Anna 


219,224 


Gov. Wilson 


364 


Elizabeth 


219.389 


Sharp Pamily 


378 


Daniel 202 


,219,147 


Agnes 


331 



Sharp , Anna 


331 


Sherman, John 


56,65,80,87 


George 


379 


89,90,91,96; 


,257,37^,390 


James 


379 


Hon. John 


87,418 


Joseph 


378.379 


Judge 


56,65,68,96 


Joseph Jr. 


379 




271,336 


Joseph Sr. 


378,379 


Lampson 


271 


Lee 


331 


Sentor 


91 


R.H. 


378 


Miss 


203 


R.L. 


379 


¥m. T. 


87 


Robert 


331,379 


Gen. Wm. T. 


56 


Robert H. 


378 


Gen. W.T. 


91,96,87 


Robert L. 


331,379 


Sherwood, Gen. 


77 


Wm. 


331,379 


Shinn, Asa 


252 


Sharrk, Wm. 


153 


Shisler, Abraham 


152 


Shartle, Philip 


384 


Emanuel 


152 


Shaug, Charles 


85 


Reuben 


152 


Dr. John M. 


61 


Shock, Miss Anna 


413 


Shaver, J.R. 


236 


Shoemaker 


40 


Shaws 


213 


Eli (Rev.) 


200 


Shaw, Ad aline 


211 


George 


232 


Andrew 


211,391 


Jacob 


104 


John 


211,388 


John 


104,200 


Joseph 


211 


Miss 


396 


Joseph S. 


245 


Shoff, Jacob 


85 


J.W. 


211,230 


Shook, John 


340 


Shawan, Lucinda 


351 


Dr. Wm. 


340 


Mary- 


211 


Short, Miss 


201 


Shaw, Minnie 


230 


Showalter, Mrs. 


235 


O.P. 


211 


Shower, Frederick 


35 


R.W. 


351 


Showley 


107 


Salmon 


65,159 


Jacob 


106 


Samuel 


162 


Mr. 


109 


V.E. 


86 


Shraff, John A. 


50 


Virgil E. 


153 


Shrleves, Catharine 343 


Shear, Mr. 


318 


Elsie 


343 


Sheets, Mathias 


407 


Harry 


343 


Sheldon, Mrs. 


200 


John 


86,343 


Shelhamer, H.M. 


403 


Mary 


343 


Mrs. Jennie 


240 


Mrs. 


343 


Shell, Ida Pierce 302 Shugart, Robert 


197 


Shepler, John 


249,281 


Shull, Miss Anna 


403 


Sheridan 


9^ 


Sarah 


314 


Phil 


80,251 


Shx;imaker, Joseph 


372 


Sherman 79,88, 


.89,90,91,92 


Wm. 


407 




93,125,367 


Shurr, John 


48 


Charles R. 


ee 


Sifford, Daniel 


76,85 


Charles Robert 55,87 


Wm. Winthrop 


257 


Charles Taylc 


3r 88 


Silbaugh, Dr. 


71,351 


C.R. Judge 


55 


L.J. 


128 


Gen. 


84,92,93,9^ 


Sllliman, Judge 


33 


James 


46 


Wyllis 


31 



Slple, Hannah 


221 


Sites, Daniel (Seltz) 


202 


E.P. 


201 


Ellen 


235 



Emanuel 200,201 

Frederick 199, 121+, 387 

George 201 

George L. I52 

Dr. H.C. 201 

Joseph S. 163 

J.S. 201 

Mrs. J.S. 163 

Kate 387 

Rev. Lewis 35 

Miss 199 

Noah 202 

Prof. 202 

Skeeters, Mary 275 

Skenmore 16O 

Slade, Gov. 125 

Wra. 125 

Slaughter, Ann 359 

Slaughter Families 357 

Slaughter, Judge 31,65,54 

Maria 359 

Robert F. 31,33,54 

Judge Robert 359 

Slocum,E.L. 85 

Slough, Fred 3l6 

Judge Tallman 283,316 

Wilhelmina 3l6 

Smalley, Mahlon 85 

Sraetters, Samuel 83 

Smith 102,139,248 

Amos 152 

Ben 33 

BenJ. 66,86 

Christly 249 

Dr. Daniel 62 

David 234,407 

Ellsha 262 

Elizabeth T. 72 

Elizabeth Tacy 73 

Everett 239 

George 86 

George H. 358 

George H. Jr. 86 

George H. Sr. 85 

Henry T. 262 

Hezekiah 35 

H.S. 125 



Smith, James 45 

Col. James 8 

James H. 73 

James H. & Elizabeth 73 

James M. 239 

Jesse 161 

Joel 38,53,85 

John C. 86 

John W. 262 

Jonathan 407 

Josiah 159 

Marietta 263 

Mary 239 

Minerva L. 272 

Minerva Louise 275 

Morris 238 

Mrs . 199 

Nelson 86 

Owen 275 

Robert 45,139 

Stephen 86 

Thomas 263 

Snellson, Rev. 219 

Snider, Albert 343 

Andrew J. 199 

Andy l45 

A.J. 144,199 

Catharine 347 

Chester A. 199 

Snlvely, Mm. J. 153 

Snyder, Andrew Jackson l44 

Jacob 368 

Soliday, John 153 

Sommers, Capt. James M. 314 

Solt & Alspach 103 

Solt, Alspach Bros. &Foor. 

103 

Spafford, Aurora 365 

Spahr, Mrs. B.N. 320 

Mrs. Rev. B.N. 3l6 

George 3l6 

Spangler-Wolfe Families 376 

Sp angler, Barbara 371,37^ 

George 197 

Elizabeth 371 

Minerva 371 

Miriam 197 

Jacob 326 

Samuel 101,370,371 

Col. Samuel 370,371 

372,373, 37*^ 



Sp angler, Wm. 


326 


Spence 


238 


Spielman, Rev. C. 


85 


Rev. Charles 


98 


Spitler 


225 


Abraham 


232 


Ira 


231 


Julia 


225 


Spoon, Mr. 


248 


Sprague, N.H. 


152 


Springer, Henry 


86 


Spur gen, Jesse & Wife 


42 


Spurgeon, Asa 


100 



Elijah & Wife 34,42 

Jesse & v;ife 34 

Squire 39 

Stafford, Gen. J. 84 

Stage, Catharine 323 

Napoleon 152 

VJm. 321 

Staker, G.A. & Co. 404 

Jacob 232 

Staley, J.J. 152 

Stallsmith, Callie S. 333 

Catherine Elizabeth 333 

Charles Edwin 333 

Frank L. 333 

John 86 

John P. 333 

Joseph L. 333 

Minnie 333 

Mrs. W.H. 290 

Wm. 333 

Wm. H. 333 

Stambaugh, Mrs. l82 

Stems, Martha J. 220 

Stanberys 125,319 

Stanbery, G. 350 

Henry 54,57,69,79,85 

98,147,363 

Atty. Gen. Henry 77 

Hon. Henry 96 

John 307,313,315 

Mr. 98 

Vta. 313 

St anbury 152 

Standish, Joseph 126 

Miles 126 

Stanton, Dr. 318,319 

Edwin M. 318 

Staughter, Judge31,54,35,357 



Steadman, Miss 309 

James 309 

Steck, F.A. 85 

Rev. Michael 63 

Rev. Michael J. 3l8 

Rev. M.J. 291 

Steinman, G. 86 

Gottlieb 49,60,65 

112,260 

Perry 86 

Steinmetz, W.J. 219 

Stemen, Rev. Henry 204 

Peter 397 

Sterret, Brice J. 7I 

Sterrit, Price 7I 

Stevensons 187,213,229,230 

Stevenson, Daniel 34,101 

130,185,186,249,269 

Daniel & Wife 252 

Edward I86 

Frank 186 

Isabella 225 

Jesse 186 

Mary 185 

Miss 189 

Mordecai 186,222 

Nancy 269 

Noah R. 222 

Mrs. Ruth 186 

Samuel E. 222 

Steward, James M. 208 

Stewart, A.M. 230 

Capt. 41,85 

Dr. 263 

James 412 

Wm. 211 

Stinchcomb 84,219 

George 4l7 

James W. 417 

Stoltz, Lewis 396 

Stone 295 

Stoneburner, Louisa 234 

Stoneman, Jesse 167,252 

Stoops, Samuel 48 

Stout, Miss 347 

Stover, Mr. 4l4 

St aye, Mary E 125 

Street, Sim 82 

Stricklers 376 

Strickler, Mrs. Isaac 375 

Stripe, Jacob 153 



strode, Edward 


32 


Stukey, W.W. 


197 


George 


311 


Stull, John 


51 


George H. 


292 


Sturgeon 


44,70 


Kate 


310,311 


Sturgeon Family 


70 


Rebecca 


292 


Brice J. Sterret 70,71 


Mrs. Thomas 


190 


Effla 


70,72 


Stropel, C, 


86 


Jane Marie 


70 


Strunk, Gabriel 


152 


Jane McEwen 


71 


Stuart , 


246 


Peter 


407 


Alexander T. 


247 


Robert 


70 


Bert 


227 


Thomas 43,11.5,49,62 


Charles 202 


,203,246 




70,71,82 


James 


202.246 


Timothy 


45,70 


Jennie 


227 


Stutson, Alvord 


84 


Joseph 


102 


Moses 


162 


Maria 


241 , 245 


Sullivan, Mrs. Helene Louisa 


Maria J. 


277 




23 


Miss 


230 


John 


26 


Mr. & Mrs. 


4l4 


Sturgeon, Richland 


McEwen 70 


Tennie 


227 


Summers, Mrs. Mary 


377 


Thompson 


246 


Sumner, Col. Wm. 


48,251 


Wesley 


246 


Mrs. Col. Wm. 


101 


Wm. 196,245 


,246,247 


Sunderland, John 


252 


Stuart, W.J. 


246 


W.H. 


169 


Zebulon 


246 


Sutphen, L. Calvin 


280 


Stuckey, Aaron 


331 


Capt. 


280 


Abel 


331 


Sutzen, Henry 


48 


Albert 


331 


Swan 


48,98 


Charles 


331 


Gustavus 


32 


Clara 


331 


Judge 


33 


Daniel 


331 


Swartz, Rev. Andrew 


r 200 


Edward 


331 


George 


201 


Elizabeth 


331 


Swartz, Miss Daisy 


303 


Ella 


331 


Henry 


200 


Emma 


331 


John 


328 


Joseph 100 


,288,331 


Joel 


200,303 


Mary Ann 


331 


Joseph 


200 


Noah 


331 


Ex. Mayor 


200 


Rosa 


331 


Samuel 


231 


Solomon 


331 


Swayze, Amos T. 


115 


¥m. 


288,331 


David 


31,252 


Zwingli 


331 


Judge David 


249 


Stukey, Agnes 


331 


Judge 


131 


Anna 


329 


Sweitzer, John 


152 


Daniel 


379 


Mary 


287 


Joseph 


100 


Sweyer, John 


49,52,383 


Joshua 


82 


Polly 


383 


Judge Joseph 


329,331 


Lewis 


339 


Judge 


66,197 


Swinehart, Mrs. 


538 


Robert 


331 


Switzer, Catharine 


346 


Rosa 


331 


Swope, Abner R. 


122 



Swope, Daniel 

David 

Felix 

Jacob 

Samuel 

Thomas 
Swornstedt, Leroy 
Syfert 



122 
121,122 
122,129,191 
122 
122 
122 
169 
3^+5 



Talbot, Benjamin 152 
Edward 152 

Tallmadge, Darius 37,6o,6l 

85,86,11^1,152,139 

Jas. 152 

T.W. 152 

Tallman 152,281,282,319 

Tallman Family 28l 

Benjamin 277,282,320,316 
Benjamin F. 273 

Cynthia Ann 273 

Dinah (Boone) 282 

Douglas 152 

George 3l6,520 

Hinton 316,320 

Honor Dianah 27M- 

Jas. 316,317,320 

James Wells 273 

John 283,316 

LaPayette 15lf 

Margaret Elizabeth 274 
Marie 283 

Mary 273,316 

Miss 133 

Nancy 273,277,316 

Nancy C. 273 

Phebe 283 

Phoebe 313,314 

Rachel Wells 273 

Richard Brown 273 

Tallman, Samuel 271,273,277 
281,282,283,316 
Samuel & Sarah 273 

Samuel & Wife 277 

Samuel Wells 28l 

Sarah 283 

Mrs. Sarah 283 

Susannah 283 

Thomas 316,320 

Wm. 277,282,283,313 

316,317,320 

Taylor 7 



Taylor, Charles 55 

Drake 298 

Gen. 367 

Henry 262 

Mary Boone 273 

Milton 118 

Gen. Zachary 88 

Teals 229 

Teal, Edward 34,100,167 

177,178,249,252 

Edward Jr. 255 

Edward & Wife 42 

Perry 178 

Mrs. Perry 28l 

Telford, Sarah A. 209 

Tenant, John H. 86 

Tharp, Elder Jacob 122 

Thimmes, M. 86 

Thomas 94 

i^mos S. 127 

David 297 

Isaac 248 

Nancy 293 

Thompson 245,393 

Amanda M. 320 

Edward 244 

John 215 

Martha 2X4 

Miss 267 

Samuel 83 

Wm. 83,287 

W.K. 392 

Thompson & Owlngs 47 

Thorne, Wm. V. 259 

Wm. E. 53 

Tiffin, Edward 33 

Gov. 167 

Tillotson, Mrs. Abble 239 

Tipton, Miss 349 

Tltler, Peter 85 

Toland, Aqullla 365 

Tolbert, Dr. 102 

Tomepomehala 9 

Tomllnson, Mr. 28O 

Aaron 153 

Tomllnson, Joseph 44 

Wm. 44 

Tong, Alexander 262 

George 262,283 

George Jr. 262 

George Sr. 262 

H.B. 152 



Tong, Hosea B. 


1>1^ 


VanMeter Family 


555 


Margaret 


262,283 


Catharine 


559,540 


Nancy 


262 


Cynthia Ann 


545 


Theo. 


86 


Daniel 336,30,335,66 


W.H. 


262 


Doctor 


254,545 


Wm. H. 


49 


Elsie 


559 


Torrence, Dr. 


125 


Ezra 


152,545 


Emanuel 


200 


VanMetre, Col. Garrett 536 


Dr. Ezra 


49,61 


Isaac 


555,250,556 


Thomas 


407 


Jacob 30, 


340,542,545 


Towson, Mrs. Charles 


w. 329 


544,555,556,557,559 


Trevitt, Dr. Wm. 


117 


Jan Gysbesten Jr. 555 


Trimble 


101,271 


Jan Gysbesten Sr. 555 


Carey A. 


418 


John 555,556,542,545,45 


Rev. Joseph M. 


169 


Col. John 


542 


Thomas 


314 


John E. 


545 


Wm. 31,35,43,101, 


,245,254 


John I. 


556,544,565 


Col. Wm. 


314 


Col. John I. 


544 


Tripp, Capt. Ira 


348 


Joslna 


557 


Trowbridge, Reese 


152 


Judge 


556 


Trumbo, Moab P. 


218 


Mary 


557 


Turner, Benjamin 


407 


Rebecca 


557,542 


Edward 


224 


Sarah 


540 


Turner (elder) 


134 


Van Pears e, John 


57,85,141 


Jacob B. 


200 




152 


Jane 


310 


VanPelt, Henry-Cc 


47 


John 


200 


VanReed, Magdalena 321 


Mrs. John (widow) 200 


VanTrump, Col 


558,365 


Joseph 


130 


VanTrump, Judge 


77 


Mollie 


311 


VanTrump, P. 


69,84 


Peter 


200 


Co. P. 


46,49,53,54 


Walter 


48 


VanZandt, John 


134 


Wm. 


248,252 


Vorys, Isaiah 


84 


Tussing, David 


231 


Wm. 


86 


Tuthill, J.L. 


85 


Vought, M.S. 


314 


Twigg, John P. 


153 


Vinton, Samuel P. 


364,365 


Ulrick, Jacob 


53,84 


Waddel, Dr. 


591 


Mrs . Jacob 


211,393 


Charles 


168 


Upfield, Wm. 


85 


Rev. Charles 


168 


Usher, Nathaniel R. 


115 


Catherine 


555 


N.R. 


118,254 


David 


535 






Wagenhals, Dr. 


85 


Valentine, Bernard 


407 


J. 


85 


George 


407 


Rev. John 


64,555 


Valiant, Mr. 


92 


Mary 


555 


VanBuren, Martin 


364,365 


Dr. Philip M. 


152 


Pres. Martin 


285 


Rev. Samuel 


335 


VanBuskirk, Mrs. John 26o 


Wagner, Jacob 


119 


Vance, Eli as 


115 


Magdaline 


125 


VanMeter S6, 


.303.338 







Walt, Dr. H.H. 


62 


Dr. Nathaniel 


13^ 


Walker, Delilah 


359 


V/aller, Harry 


311 


Ralph 


311 


Scott 


311 


W.G. 


311 


Walters, Ben. 


212 


Ben j . 


218 


Chrlstena 


224 


Dan 


83 


Daniel 


192 


E.M. 


83 


F. Judge 


192 


Judge Festus 


192 


Jacob 


139,212 


Jacob M. 


154,218 


Samuel 


213 


Miss 


383 


Ward 


338 


Daniel 


292 


George 


351 


Mr. 


202 


Sarah 


292 


Warner, Benjamin 


233 


Henry 


117 


Washington 


293 


Gen. 


258,367 


V/atsbaugh, Mr. 


161 


Watson, George 


83 


John 


297 


W.A. 


220 


Vim. 


83 



Wayne, Gen. Anthony l8l,l82 

49 

Gen. 367 

Weakly, Henry V. 86 

James 52 

Otho 152 

Weatherby, Nathan 381 

Weaver 37,193,386,415 

Christopher 51,63 

David 83 

Henry C. 294,295 

James 84 

John C. 85 

Samuel 152 

Solomon I52 

s.p. ^ 232 

Webb, Amos 35,42,178 
Webster 157 



VJebster, Daniel 57,96,287 
V/eeks, Mrs. 34l 

Weimar, Grand Duke of Saxe 

38,68,374 
Welst, Jacob 302 

s.s. 215 

Truphenle 302 

Weldy, Elizabeth 200 

Wells, 259,263,282,205,319 

Wells Family 268 

Alexander 268,269,278 

279 

Ann 268 

Mrs. Ann 268 

Ann Brown 276 

Basil 280 

Bezaleal 263,268,272 

Wells, Daniel 280 

Elizabeth 263,271 

Elizabeth(Holmes) 392 

Emaletta 272 

Franklin 280 

General 272,275,276 

278,279 

George 258,261,263,269 

272,278,280 

George Jr. 392 

George Sr. 392 

Holmes 392 

Honor 268,269 

Honora B. 276 

Honore 258 

James 268,269,270 

272,273 

Gen. James 102,258,268 

269,270,271,276,280,289 

313,316,406 

Jesse 280 

John 270,276,280 

Joseph 263 

Juliet 272 

Margaretta Madden 276 

Mary 270,271 

Mary Brown 272 

Miss 272 

Narcissa 28o 

Nathan 276 

Nathaniel 280 

Patience 270 

Prudence 268 

Rachel 261,274 



Wells, Rachel (Mrs. James) 265 


Vlhittaker, Dakin 


253, 


,262,265 


Richard 263,269,268 


Ell 


253.259,265 




270,271 


Hester 




253 


Richard(or James) 269 


John 




253,267 




270 


Josiah 




266 


Rlchard(or James 


with 


Miss 




265 


wife, Nancy Brown) 269 


Mrs. 




266 


Samuel 


280 


Thomas 




253 


Sarah 272,273 


,271,281 


VJhittlesey, Mr. 




65 


Thomas 


270 


Wickizer, John 




152 


Wm. 263,269,278 


Wickliffe, D.D. 




83 


Welsh, Mary P. 


333 


Wiest, S.S. 




369 


V/elshamer, Miss 


382 


Vaicox, Dr. Robert 


61,406 


Welsheimer, Phil. 


154 


Wildermuth, Mrs. 




414 


Philip 


294 


Wiles, Isaac 




252 


Welty, Christopher 


2if7,396 


V/iley, John 




383 


John 


405 


Robert 




383 


Sallie 


395 


V/ilkln, Miss 




298 


V/estenbarger, George 


330 


Wilkins, Enos 




266 


Westenberger, Maria : 


E. 226 


VJilkinson, Hannah E. 


329 


Uestlake, Horatio 


82 


Williams 




77 


Wetwine, Henry 


U8 


Abel 




337 


Wetzel, Jacob 


86 


Alfred 




152 


Moses 


397 


Dr. 65; 


,148,154,37*^ 


VJetzler, Thomas 


85 


E.G. 




152 


Wheat, Mrs. George K. 


339,343 


G. 




86 


Wheeler, Mr. 


347 


James 




152 


Samuel 


347 


Jno. 




86 


^^Ihiley, Mrs. P.O. 


419 


Dr. John 


102 


,149,152 


Samuel 


86 


Dr . John 




295,1*^9 


\ilhiley, Thomas 


85,191 


Micajah T. 




372 


White, Alexander 


30,31,5^ 


Miss 




387 


Mrs. Dr. 


46,254 


Polly 




382 


E.B. 


302 


Thomas 




101 


Mrs. E.B. 


302 


Williams, Willis 




152 


Dr. J. 


64 


Williamson, Family 


348 


Dr. James 


62,84 


Albert 




348,349 


Rev. John W. 


188 


Alonzo 




350 


Levi 


273 


Althea 




350 


Thomas 


152 


Amanda 




349 


Thomas U. 


86 


Anna 




350 


T.U. 


85 


Miss Ara 




351 


Rev. Wm. 


64,73 


Catharine 




350 


Whitehurst, M.C. 


152 


Charles 




349 


Whitman 


125 


Mrs. Charles 


E. 


419 


H.C. 


84,352 


Cholista 




350 


Judge 


353 


Clark 




351 


Whitmore 


248 


Mrs. Clarke 




323 


Whittaker 


261 


Eliza 




351 


Whit takers 


259 


Elizabeth 




192,349 


Whittaker, Ann 


259 


Emma 




350 



I'Jilliamson, Etta 


350 


Gen. 


48 


George 


546,350 


George W. 


348 


Henrietta 


351 


Henry 


349 



Isaac Newton 350 
Jacob 350 

Jacob P. 349,350 
John 66,350,351 
Gen. John 48,31,43,251 
Joseph 350 

Levi 152,351 

Lorlnda 349 

Mary 350 

Milton 351 

Maria 351 

Mr . 208 

Rhoda 350 

Rufus 350 

Samuel 350 

Sarah 346,349 

Seymour 349 

Silas 351 

Silas J. 350,351 
Sophia 351 

Theodore 348,349,350,351 
Thomas 319,351 

Tunis 350 

VJllllam 350,351 
Zona 349 

Miss Zero 351 

VJllllard, Reverend 85 
Willis, Nathaniel 43 
VJlllock, John G. 84 

Wilson 70,136,229,252 
252,275 
Wilson Family 247,283 
Alice 286 

Ambrose 152 

Archibald 297 

Benjamin 25I 

Catherine 25I 

Wilson, C.G. & Co. 153 
Cynthia Elizabeth 275 
David 101,250,251,252 
Daniel 332 

Ed 82 

Effla 71,73 

Elizabeth 287,288,298 
P.E. 310 



Wilson, Frank E. 31I 
George W. 274,277 
Gustin 285 

Harvey 286 

Honora Celista 274 
Isaac 101,173,195,250 
J. 248 

James 71,247,248,251 
275,285,286 
Dr. James 62,71,70,72 
James Madison 287 
James S. 71 

James W. 275,357 
James Wells 275,289 
Jane Amanda 71 

John 286,288 

John Alexander 71 
John W. 347 

Joseph 101,251 

Josephine 287 

Jos i ah 288 

Judge 33,260 

J.w. 251 

Margaret 288,289 
Maria E. 72 

Mary 25 1 

Mary Elizabeth 71 
Mary Louisa 275 
Mendana 286 

Michael 247,251 
Minerva V/ells 274 
N. 43 

Nathan 35,284,285 
286,295 
Nathaniel Jr. 30,284,285 
Nathaniel Sr. 30,33,274 
283.285,287,288,289,286 
Newton D. 287 

Rachel 226,275 

Mrs. Rachel 289 
Robert 106,285,287 
Mrs. Robert 346 
Col. Robert 35 

Robert Jr. 287 

Robert Sr. 287,288 
Ruth 288 

Samuel 285,288,289 
Samuel Dudley 289 
Sarah J. 288 

Smith Kerns 288 
Thomas 101,250,251,252 



V/ilson, Thomas A. 




153 


Wiseman, C.M.L. 91,96,143 


Vaison, W.B, 




82 




418,1 


Wm. 101,247 


,250 


,251 


Mrs. George B. 


253 


252,2711,285,289 


Henry Clay 


419 


Judge Wm. 




32 


Isaac 


416 


Wm. Sr. 




101 


Isaac & Elizabeth 4l6 


Wm. Harvey 




275 




417,418 


Zella 




286 


Jacob 


416,417 


Wlneburner, Agnes 




272 


James 


417 


VII ng & Atwood 




115 


John 240 


,416,417 


Wing, L.B. 




47 


V/iseman, Rev. John 


217,406 


Wm. 113,116,117 


,118 


,132 




417 


Winner, Daniel 


31^3 


,344 


Capt. John 


276,417 


Winter Family 




310 


Rev. John 


4l6 


Winters, Abraham 


160 


,162 


Joseph 


416,417 




217 


.310 


Mary Elizabeth 


419 


Alice P. 




311 


Philip S. 


417 


Benjamin 




310 


Philip Smith 


418 


Charles C. 




311 


P.S. 


417,210 


Winter, Conrad 




85 


Sallie 


417 


Cora M. 


310 


,311 


Samuel 105,217 


,416,417 


Daniel 




310 


Mrs . Samuel 


307 


Elijah 


306,310 


Simon 


417 


Elijah M. 




311 


Theodore 


417 


Emma 




310 


Wm, 


249,416 


Esther 




310 


Wm. Tec IMS eh 


419 


E.M. 




311 


Wm. Wirt 


161 


Frank E. 


310 


,311 


VJitt, Miss 


203 


Fred E. 




311 


Witte, Capt. A. P. 


36,37,84 


George W. 




311 


Wolfe, Ezra 


374 


Hannah 




310 


Isaac 


376 


Isaac 


310 


,311 


Rose Ann 


275 


Jacob 




310 


Salem 


375 


Jennie A. 




311 


Salem S. 


37^ 


John M. 




306 


Valentine 


37^ 


John Meason 




311 


Wolfe, Charles F. 


374 


Winters, Margaret 


162,310 


Andrew 


398 


Winter, Mary E. 


310 


,311 


Emma 


398,401 


Samuel 




310 


Ezra 371 


,374,376 


Walter 




310 


George 


398 


Wm. B. 




311 


Isaac 


37^.376 


Wintersteen 




120 


John L. 


374 


Wise, Darius 




314 


John N. 


376 


Rev. George 




109 


Julia 


398 


Rev. 




314 


Martin (Judge) 


398 


Wiseman Family 




416 


Matilda 


398 


Abner 




416 


Dr. M.F. 


374 


Mrs. Ada 




215 


Nancy 


398 


Andrew 




417 


Noah 


398 


Ann 




417 


Perry 


376 


Miss Annie 




349 


Salem 85,374,375,376 


Charles Philip 




419 







V/olfe, Salem S. 




374 


Yanna, Henry 


108 


Salem Spangler 




374 


Yontz, Benjamin 


174 


Samuel Spangler 




373 


Eugene 


310 


Samuel V. 37^■, 


,375 


,383 


Young Family 


410 


Sarah 




398 


Youngs 


101,376 


Mrs. S.J. 




377 


Arthur 0. 


413 


Valentine 




374 


Asa 


411 


Wolfly, Silas 




324 


Blanche 


413 


Wolford, Jacob 




48 


Miss Blanche 


413 


Woltz, Jesse 




51 


Mr. Cecil 


413 


V/oodbridge, John 




44 


Charles 


413 


V/oodrlng, Peter 


407 


,107 


Christian 


407 


Woods, Elijah 




12 


David 


410,411,170 


Esther 




13 


Rev. David 


16,26 


John 




13 


Edward 192, 


,410,413,415 


Rebecca Crawford 




13 


Rev. E.E. 


413 


Woodward, Asa B. 




288 


Ellas 


415 


VJoodward, John M. 




288 


Elizabeth 


414 


Samuel 




288 


Enos 


226,413 


V/oolard, John 




297 


Ernest 


413 


Work, Rev. Charles 




244 


Henry \1. 


413 


James 




85 


Hezekiah 


415 


John 50,86 


,374 


H.U. 


410,415 


Joseph 




51 


Jacob 


168,413 


Joseph Jr. I 


(86) 


186 


James 


396,412,414 


Joseph Sr. 




85 


Young, Jane 


375 


Mrs . Mary 




251 


J.B. 


415 


Robert 




86 


J.G. 


415 


Wm. 




196 


J.M. 


415 


Worthlngton, Thomas 


33,43 


John 


162,396,411 


V/rlght 


142 


,319 


John B. 


412 


David 




407 


John M. 


414 


Edwin 


85,86 


Kate 


412 


Frank 




401 


Margaret 


342,411 


John H. 




85 


Mary 


412,414 


Rev. John 


34,63 


Mrs . Mary 


410 


Josiah 




86 


Matilda 


412 


Judge 




84 


Matthew 


101 


Mrs. Judge Silas 


H. 


164 


Miss 


383 


M.K. 




315 


N. 


84 


Rev. 




63 


Rebecca 


184 


Silas H. (Judge) 




152 


Robert 


101 


Wm. 




152 


Rose 


413 


Wunderlick, Count 




377 


T.E. 


415 


Susan 




377 


Thomas 


413,414 


Wygum, George J. 




152 


Thompson 


412 


G.J. 

X 




86 


Walter 

VJheeler 

Wilbur 

Wm. 153: 


413 

168 

413 

,375,396,412 








Yale, Stephen 




300 


Vta. E. 


414 



Zane 9,lO,l8,19,U2,l23 

21^8,256 

Alice Josephine 12 

Andrew 10,15,19 

Ann 12 

Austin B. 13 

Austin Bloomfleld 13 

Benjamin Franklin 12 

Catherine 12 

Col. 11,40,20,23 

Mrs. Col. 24 

Cynthia E. 12 

Daniel 12 

Daniel Jr. 12 

Ebenezer 9,10,11,14,15 

16,13,20,40,43,170 

Col. Ebenezer 11,14,23 

24,25,247 

Elizabeth 10,13 

Emma 12 

Esther 12 

Harriet 12 

Isaac 10,14,15,16 

17,19.20 

Jesse 12 

John 9,12,43,48 

Jonathan 9,10,l4,l6 

20,40 

Lewis B. 13 

Lewis Pearl 13 

Martha 12 

Narclssa 12 

Noah 9,12,43,48 

Zane, Rebecca 12 

Samuel 12,13,19 

Sarah 12,20,24 

Silas 9,10,16,13 

Col. Silas 11,13 

Virginia 12 

Zangmelster, Henry 333 

Zarley, Peter 248 

Zimmerman 152 

Zlnk 152 

Miss 230 

Zollars, Mr. (Judge) 266 

Zollinger, John 266 

Zug & Gordon 113 



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